Retroactive solar tax shocks Czech PV industry

摘要

The political battle over consequences of the solar boom in the Czech Republic has resulted in a new legislation which will harm the local photovoltaics industry significantly. At the end of October the Czech parliament took the first set of restrictive measures for local photovoltaics. It stopped the tax holidays for all operators of PV plants and changed the write-off scheme to be ap-plied retroactively to all PV plants. After strong pro-tests from local investors, the deputies decided to limit an additional solar tax to a duration of 3 years (2011-2013).