The interim president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfred Simonis, on Saturday stated that the new form of the law on special pensions, the one including the amendments requested by the Constitutional Court, should be adopted by the end of September.
"The decision of the Constitutional Court is not so categorical, it stills provided an alternative way, and I believe that by the end of September we will adopt the law in the new form, with the amendments requested by the Constitutional Court. (...) All categories of special pensions in Romania are targeted by this new law. Maybe someone will ask us - why don't you cut them off completely, like for the MPs? Well, we actually did it, where possible. We did cut them off for MPs, but we cannot cut them off entirely for magistrates and other categories. Because there are already decisions in place that say they don't have... and, actually, there is this concept at the European level that magistrates all over the world have special pensions," Simonis told Prima Tv private television broadcaster.
He also mentioned that special pensions will be taxed "by 15-20-25%."
"They must be taxed and if we cannot eliminate them, as I would like, and possibly establish a principle and some very clear gradations for each individual professional category, at least tax them, reduce them, because pensions of the type I saw in the public system of RON 30,000, 40,000, 70,000, are absurd, and have nothing to do with the contributiveness principle," said the interim president of the Chamber of Deputies.
Alfred Simonis stated that the MPs are now waiting for an analysis from the Government to decide what will be the maximum amount up to which a special pension can go.
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