“(…) They all had the same type of approach: to increase taxes, to aggress the business environment, aggression which led to the current situation”, Biris told a news conference.
The study only includes the changes brought to the Tax Code and the Fiscal Procedure Code which directly impacted the calculation and payment of taxes by taxpayers.
“The business environment’s main issue is predictability. As long as things are not predictable, one cannot function, cannot make a business plan, as long as an emergency ordinance may be issued anytime to change the rules of the game,” Florin Pogonaru, AOAR president, stated.
In his turn, Cristian Parvan, AOAR secretary general, said that tax policy in Romania should not be used exclusively to generate revenues to the state budget.
Despite the numerous fiscal changes, the big problems of Romanian tax policy, such as VAT evasion, excise duty evasion, and the work on the black market, remained unsolved, AOAR representatives stated.
Moreover, the increase of taxes and the adding of new taxes or the aggressive fiscal checkups lately did not make things better, as the country’s tax authority ANAF abandoned completely its guiding role for the taxpayers.
AOAR head also said that Prime Minister Victor Ponta and the Finance Minister gave assurance that no fiscal changes would occur this year, except for lowering social security contributions.