The owners of the licenses for rental cars with a driver are trying to orchestrate a common front so that the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) returns the amount of the fee collected to be able to continue working in the conurbation of the Catalan capital, since, as La Vanguardia advanced, a ruling by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) annuls this tax.
The rate in question was 500 euros, one of the highest of this type in all of Spain. Sources from the Institut Metropolità del Taxi (Imet), the body that was in charge of processing, point out that it was charged 1,588 times, which amounts to 794,000 euros. Imet understands that the decision of the TSJC does not oblige it to return this amount.
Differences of interest abound in this sector. On the one hand, there are those known as traditional VTCs, those who use high-end vehicles, either to go to a funeral or to transport executives. And on the other, there are the fleets that provide the services with very few minutes in advance through the big transport applications, such as Bolt, Uber or Cabify. It is the traditionalists who are trying to orchestrate a common front. And it was the fleets that brought this matter before the TSJC. In any case, both of them understand that the restrictions on their activity established by the Catalan institutions are exaggerated.
