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Codirlasu: I see an impact on inflation next year of 1-2 percentage points, which will come from turnover tax
The turnover tax and the reduction of certain facilities with regard to the VAT payment could have an impact on inflation of 1 to 2 percentage points next year, stated on Monday Adrian Codirlasu, vice chairman of the Association CFA Romania.
"I am in favour of a single quota applicable to all and non-discriminatory. A facility applies, but it can apply for a limited time, that facility takes effect, then we reduce it, we take it away. Also in this sense of, let us say tax fairness, there is a study done last year by the Fiscal Council which even said that if we removed these facilities it would bring to the state budget somewhere around 2% of GDP additional revenue. We would not have had these problems this year if we had applied those measures proposed by that study. On the specific taxation that is happening now, basically additional taxes have been put on companies. So basically the government wants more money and is taking that money from the consumer, from the population through the companies. In the sense that a turnover tax is a VAT. VAT is a turnover tax. Also, a turnover tax is actually a VAT on steroids. In what sense? The bigger the supply chain, the more 1% is added at each point and the final price to the consumer is more than 1%. That's why I see an impact on inflation next year, maybe somewhere between 1 and 1.5, 2 percentage points, which will come both from this turnover tax and somehow from the reduction of certain facilities regarding the payment of VAT", said Adrian Codirla?u, at the 4th edition of the Roinvest event.
Similarly, the vice chairman of the Association CFA Romania considered that it is possible to have such episodes of reduction of the fiscal facilities next year as well.
‘Next year, according to my opinion we will have another episode of increase of taxes, as we will not get to reach the target, under 3% of GDP. In any case, we will not reach it next year, maybe at the pace we have today, somewhere in 2025 – 2026’ explained Adrian Codirlasu, vice-chairman of the Association CFA Romania.