05.18.2012

Introducing a tax on fast food will undoubtedly impact the Romanian food industry, consumers, as well as the country’s agriculture and economy, food industry association Romalimenta said in a press more

05.17.2012

The Romanian Economy Ministry wants to keep industrial property taxes unchanged at the level applied in 2006 for two years, until 2014, and put off a 20% tax increase introduced at the beginning of more

05.17.2012

Romania’s new healthcare law might introduce a tax on fast food and beer, Health Minister Vasile Cepoi said Thursday, adding that unhealthy foods increase the morbidity rate and must be additionally more

05.13.2012

Romania’s Government plans to reduce social security contributions by 5 percentage points for employers next year and keep the flat tax unchanged at 16% for companies, Prime Minister Victor Ponta more

05.07.2012

Romania remains attractive for Western European employers in terms of salary costs thanks to its 16% flat-rate income tax, but loses ground in terms of social security contributions, which are much more

04.17.2012

Sorin Blejnar was dismissed Tuesday from the position of president of Romania's tax authority, ANAF, after a discussion with Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, the Government informs. more

04.11.2012

After years in which the authorities and politicians have just talked about taxing agriculture, the Finance Ministry readily admits “agriculture is less taxed than the rest of economic sectors,” more

03.26.2012

Almost 30,000 Romanians and 240,000 companies had their accounts frozen by fiscal authorities after they failed to pay their taxes. more

03.15.2012

Romania's Government this year expects to collect the lowest revenue from the car pollution tax since it was introduced, no more than 275 million lei (EUR63 million), ten times less than the 2011 more

03.15.2012

Almost 7,000 individual farmers together exploit 700,000 hectares of land, i.e. 8% of the arable land in Romania, according to data of the Agriculture Ministry. The business done by these people is more

03.06.2012

The Romanian Government estimates the car pollution tax will bring total revenues of only 624 million lei (EUR143 million) to the state budget in 2012, three times lower than last year’s forecast more

02.22.2012

Romania’s Agriculture Minister Stelian Fuia supports the bill on taxing untilled land, and believes that Romania might have its entire farmland put into production through the new regulations. more

02.17.2012

Romanian Prime Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu on Friday called on Cabinet ministers and heads of authorities fighting tax evasion to collect and pour into the state budget, in the next two months, more

02.14.2012

The contract to be soon signed by Romanian authorities with Germany’s Bosch includes conditions regarding the payment of compensation by the German investor if the plant it will build in Jucu (NW) more

01.30.2012

Romania's Government on Monday decided that the car pollution tax, charged on the first sale of cars registered before 2007, would be suspended until next year, with a refund offered to car owners who more

01.27.2012

The republishing of the Tax Code, long awaited and expected for this year, will not take place within the next 2-3 years, believes Alex Milcev, Fiscal Assistance Partner at audit and consultancy firm more

01.26.2012

Romania's Government will suspend the car pollution tax to "reevaluate" its social impact and will refund people who bought used cars since January 13, 2012 and paid the tax, although this will cost more

01.25.2012

Romanian tax authority ANAF must refund in five days the money seized through distraint orders which exceeds contributors’ debts to the state, the Government said in a press release Wednesday. more

01.25.2012

Romania's Government has announced that income from the sale of scrap to scrapyards will be considered "income from miscellaneous sources" and will be subject to a 16% tax. more

01.25.2012

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely informed the Government Wednesday about his plan to suspend for one year the application of the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars registered in more

01.23.2012

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely on Monday proposed that the application of the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars registered in Romania before January 1, 2007 be suspended for more

01.16.2012

More than 2 million Romanians will no longer be able to sell their cars, which are registered before 2007, because of the new pollution tax, which in the case of older cars amounts to at least half more

01.11.2012

Romania's Government estimates the total value of car pollution tax refunds, resulting from the difference between the old tax and the new tax, will not exceed 200 million lei (EUR45.8 million), said more

01.10.2012

Romanian car owners for whom the car pollution tax paid since July 1, 2008 is higher than the tax according to the new system may request a refund of the difference, but this refund will also be more

01.05.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday passed the law on the car pollution tax, the Presidential Administration said in a press release. more