PNL deputy Ionel Bogdan accuses the PSD of incoherence and the transmission of a wrong signal to the business environment, after the Social Democrats voted in the Government to eliminate the minimum tax on the turnover, but Adrian Căciu, former Minister of Finance from the Social Democrats, publicly criticized the measure.
Ionel Bogdan responds to criticisms of eliminating IMCA Photo: Facebook
Elimination of the minimum tax on the turnover (IMCA) arouses disputes in the ruling coalition. While PNL supports the measure as a correction of a mistake, the former PSD finance minister Adrian Căciu accuses that the advantages go to multinationals, while the population is burdened with additional taxes.
Shortly after he criticized the measure on Saturday, August 30, PNL deputy Ionel Bogdan reacted by posting on his Facebook account a message accusing PSD of populism, warning that by the statement of Adrian Căciu the party sends to the business environment a message of instability and distrust.
“Coherence, not populism! In the Government meeting, the PSD agreed to eliminate the minimum tax on the turnover (IMCA)-a tax that proved harmful to the Romanian companies. However, in the public space, former PSD ministers criticize the same measure that their party has approved at the Government’s table. and mistrust ”, Ionel Bogdan wrote on Facebook.
The Liberal explained that the minimum tax did not bring money to the budget, but affected the correct companies, including those that did not make tax optimizations.
“The elimination of this tax was natural and creates space for a more fair frame: the new provisions do not charge the small profit obtained naturally, but concern exclusively the artificial export of profit through intra-group transactions. The package 2 of measures means the correction of the past and stability for the Romanian companies”, Ionel Bogdan added in response to the criticisms made by the former PSD Minister of Finance.
On the other side, former PSD Minister of Finance, Adrian Căciu, says the measure is unfair.
“When you approach the problems of Romania, you must never forget that if you still say that you have no money and you tax the poor (CASS, VAT), you cannot reduce or cancel the taxes on the rich. It is totally unfair to eliminate the turnover to multinationals (it was 1% of the turnover, nothing with 250 billion) mothers or pensions of people ”, Adrian Căciu explained on Saturday, reminding that this tax brought 3.7 billion lei annually to the budget.
He states that he asked the Minister of Finance, Alexandru Nazare, to give up the measure, but the decision had already been taken: “I said this in the coalition, I asked the minister Nazare to give up the idea, but it was clear to me that they had already understood themselves with multinationals (rich, as I call them). He did not give up!”.
