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Romania would maintain the 16 per cent flat tax
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday said that until the elections of 2016 Romania would maintain the 16 per cent flat tax and, after which the political forces that will win the next parliamentary elections would be able to decide whether they maintain this flat tax or not.
'Keeping the flat tax was a condition of the Liberal coalition partners, we have accepted it, we shall keep it. I am absolutely positive that at least until the elections of 2016 Romania will definitely have a 16 per cent flat tax and further on the political forces that will have the legitimacy of the parliamentary elections of 2016 will be able to say if they maintain this flat tax or not,' Victor Ponta said at the 23rd edition of the 'National Ranking of Private Companies of Romania - 2013 Ranking,' carried out at the Palace of Parliament.
He reiterated that no fee and tax increases would take place in 2015.
'It is election campaign, but I believe that we shouldn't be playing in the economy area in the election campaign. There will be no increases in 2015, we have not planned such thing and no one, the current or the future government, will increase any fees and taxes, for the simple reason that what we adopted and is currently in force keeps within the budget fiscal policy we already have adopted, negotiated with the international bodies. (...) In 2015-2016, I don't believe the future government is allowed to increase any fee or any special tax,' Ponta said.