MKFE will provide over Ft 2 billion in additional budget revenues as members will no longer fill their tanks abroad, he said. MOL already provides an Ft 8 discount at the remaining filling stations, based on an agreement signed in April 2008.

Members will probably buy 60-65 million litres of fuel annually instead of the earlier 48-50 million.

MKFE suggests that the government reduce the tax on diesel by Ft 8, arguing that this would also increase budget revenues, as transiting trucks will fill their tanks in Hungary."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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