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FISCAL COUNCIL

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Macroeconomics

Fiscal Council: 2019 Target Date For Joining Euro ‘Unrealistic’

Romania’s target date for joining the euro area seems economically unrealistic and is based on political and strategic rationales, the president of the country’s Fiscal Council Ionut Dumitru...

Florentina Dragu · 19.06.2014 · 15:02 · 1 min
Romania Needs More Fiscal Measures To Offset Social Security Cut
Macroeconomics

Romania Needs More Fiscal Measures To Offset Social Security Cut

Romania needs additional fiscal measures besides a recently introduced levy on special constructions to compensate for the lower social security tax rate and be able to continue to reduce it...

Florentina Dragu · 19.06.2014 · 14:04 · 1 min
Fiscal Council: Social Security Tax Cut Difficult If Collections Stay Low
Macroeconomics

Fiscal Council: Social Security Tax Cut Difficult If Collections Stay Low

Romanian government’s planned five percentage-point reduction of the social securities tax will be difficult to achieve considering the low level of tax collections to the state budget, the...

Florentina Dragu · 09.05.2014 · 12:50 · 1 min
Deleveraging To Continue At Least Another Year – Fiscal Council
Banks-Insurance

Deleveraging To Continue At Least Another Year – Fiscal Council

Foreign banks will continue to deleverage from their Romanian subsidiaries for at least another year before the process is completed, the head of the country’s parliament-appointed Fiscal Co...

Florentina Dragu · 11.12.2013 · 13:51 · 1 min
Fiscal Council: Tax Evasion In Romania At RON81B In 2012, Or 14% Of GDP
Banks-Insurance

Fiscal Council: Tax Evasion In Romania At RON81B In 2012, Or 14% Of GDP

Tax evasion in Romania climbed about 3 basis points since the beginning of the crisis to 14% of the gross domestic product in 2012, from 11.2% of the GDP in 2008, according to a report by th...

Ioana Tudor · 12.09.2013 · 19:30 · 1 min
Fiscal Council: Budget Revision Based On Overestimated Revenue
Macroeconomics

Fiscal Council: Budget Revision Based On Overestimated Revenue

The Romanian Government’s recent announced budget revision breaks several fiscal-budgetary rules and is based on unrealistic expectations, especially overestimated revenue from the income ta...

Bogdan Neagu · 13.08.2013 · 12:43 · 1 min
Fiscal Council Head: Romania Needs More FDI To Finance Current Account Gap
Banks-Insurance

Fiscal Council Head: Romania Needs More FDI To Finance Current Account Gap

Romania must find solutions to divert more foreign capital toward financing the current account deficit, Ionut Dumitru, head of the country's Fiscal Council, said Thursday.

Florentina Dragu · 22.11.2012 · 14:09 · 1 min
Macroeconomics

Fiscal Council: Government Breaches Fiscal Responsibility Law By Increasing Budget Expenses

Romania’s Government harms the credibility of the fiscal responsibility law by further increasing budget expenses, according to the Fiscal Council.

Ioana Tudor · 23.10.2012 · 19:29 · 1 min
Social/Politics

Special Pension Mystery Solved: 45-Year Seniority For 43 Year-Old Pensioners

The Fiscal Council confirms what Ziarul Financiar said when it raised the issue of the increase in spending on special pensions as a result of the pension reform

Oana Gavrila · 28.11.2011 · 00:00 · 2 min