The Environmentalists Movement – Citizens' Cooperation is strongly critical of the Minister of Finance Makis Keravnos, characterizing green taxation as a fraud. strong> today, in the Third of the RIK, that there must be respect for the environment in order to justify the imposition of the so-called “green taxation”, at the same time that the Republic of Cyprus is being dragged to the European Court of Justice for serial violations of environmental legislation.In a country where the habitats are for consumption, where the bulldozers thresh the Natura areas and where whoever has time builds e.g. temples, restaurants, etc., no minister can ask to tax citizens and businesses in the name of the environment”, notes the Movement.
As environmentalists, they add, we have been warning for decades. “The rulers were deaf. Now they rush to blame their mistakes and omissions on ordinary citizens. The pricing of pollution should be done with a pro-people social sign and not to fill the gaps in the state coffers. And above all, it must finance citizens and businesses (especially small ones) to implement environmental protection and green transition programs”.
Until next year, he concludes, the government has time, through the consultation, to submit an inclusive and coherent plan that ensures the green transition with a social sign.
Source: cyprustimes.com
