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Business | April 8, 2014, Tuesday // 12:04
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Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture will provide fuel discount vouchers to farmers from 16 May to 20 June, 2014.
The vouchers will grant BGN 0.31 discount per liter, Bulgarian Dnevnik informs. A total of 18,234 declarations for a projected total amount of 270M tonnes of diesel oil have been filed by end-February. The state aid comes up to BGN 84M, and the reduced excise duty on the part of the state is 50%.
The fuel vouchers will be distributed in two stages, Capital Weekly reports. Based on the projected amount farmers will receive vouchers for 60% of the used fuel in 2014. The remaining 40% will be distributed in early 2015.
The vouchers can be used only to buy fuel and cannot be cashed. As of 2014, farmers should keep a register of all used duel.
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