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The state budget bill for 2018 has been adopted by articles on Monday by the plenary sitting of Parliament. The bill has been adopted in its form provided by the budget committees, with one single amendment rejected.
Therefore, the Parliament plenum rejected the amendment regarding the increase from 71.5% up to 100% of the split quotas for the income tax to be transferred to the local budget, in order to compensate for the cut in the income tax from 16% down to 10%.
The one who proposed that this amendment should be rejected was the Social Democrat Deputies leader Ionut Munteanu, after the amendment had been previously approved by the budget-finances committees. The MPs rejected the amendment initiated by the UDMR, with 105 votes "in favour", 114 "against" and one abstention. Therefore, the Parliament adopted the initial text of the budget draft, according to which the quotas for the income tax split transferred to the local budgets stay at 71.5%. The final vote on this law will be cast this week.
