PM Ciolacu: Tax exemption elimination to be done gradually, no changes on anything working
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said that the elimination of tax exemptions, a measure considered by the Government in beneficiary sectors such as construction, IT, agriculture, food industry, will not be "brutal," as the Government does not want to ruin activities that are functioning, told Agerpres.
He thus answered Wednesday at the Victoria Governmental Palace to a question from a participant at the Forum of Romanian Students Abroad, a dental medicine student in Oradea, concerned about the prospects for young people who want to open a business after completing their studies in areas such as health or IT.
"We have ongoing programmes. Right now it's Start-Up Nation, it's in its I don't know which year. We are now trying to give a side to it also for Romanians who are abroad, to have access to this platform (...) All these programmes continue. Micro-enterprises - there is only one different approach of the Commission - the fact that they have become a kind of offshore within a state. You can't have offshore taxation on micro-enterprises, and nonetheless solve the problems, the first five problems: living without poverty, without hunger, health, education, infrastructure. So something somewhere is not working. And the Commission said: we understand, let's see gradually, how to remove these exemptions, but they... the discussion and the removal of exemptions is not a brutal one, that could spoil the activity. However, HoReCa, micro-enterprises... We're coming out of a pandemic period, when they were supported with budget money to get through that year and a half of no activity. There were closed hotels, closed restaurants, closed cinemas, closed theatres. Then, at that time, the Romanian state came with a lot of funds. They have returned, it seems to me, up to almost 6% of GDP to this area. Nobody will change anything that is working," said Ciolacu.
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