Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu admits that “something is not working” in Romania. Of course, it is hard to understand how you end up with the biggest evasion in Europe, in the conditions of the “lowest taxes” which are also unpaid.
Prime Minister Ciolacu says that the first thing that must be solved is digitization.
“We have the biggest evasion in Europe and we have the lowest taxes. I understand that when you have the lowest taxes, at least let’s pay those. We have low taxes and high evasion. So something is not working. The first thing is digitization. There is no progressive taxation on companies. Corporate taxation is corporate taxation. As well as the single tax, that single tax rate, cannot be 0.5, 9, 16, 19. Where else is it… I can hear the colleagues from the coalition, sir, we remain with the single tax. What is the single charge, I don’t understand it? And I gave some examples. I cannot buy a plot of land for 1000 euros, per individual, and then sell it for 10 million euros and be taxed at 10%. Because this does not happen anywhere in this world. Up to a certain threshold… Those are incomes, the so-called exceptional incomes. which must be taxed in stages. That is a progressive taxation”, declared Marcel Ciolacu, on Saturday.
At the same time, Prime Minister Ciolacu says that taxes will not increase, but we must wait for a tax reform.
“It’s stupid. There are certain specific things that need to be discussed. A tax reform will be implemented, I think by the year 2026…(…) A tax settlement, otherwise passed by USR, Orban, Cîţu, whoever it was then. We didn’t have access to that, after all, public information. All those things were secret. That fiscal reform is not implemented in the respective fiscal year, so it has effects… it’s a delay of one year, it’s six months according to the law, because you come with reform, not with fiscal measures. We have removed the exceptions and we are seeing digitization and we have promised very clearly, there is no talk, first to do their duty to the Romanian state. First the state, after 32 years, we are concretely talking about the digitization of ANAF. Which we will complete this year. We will try to… It has started to decrease a bit from the VAT gap, which is the largest”, said the prime minister.
Last but not least, Ciolacu talks about record investments of almost 100 billion this year, but also about the increase in consumption.
“It will be a record. The sustainability of the Romanian economy is currently based on investments. Consumption has increased. I looked at the figures from January and February. Consumption began to increase. ANAF said they are collecting. They collected”, said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.
