After the PSD proposed to cancel some measures in the first government fiscal package, two USR deputies come with a project that sets a deadline for applying tax increases. Economic analysts warn that the lack of predictability affects confidence in fiscal policies and highlights the increasing incoherence inside the ruling coalition.
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In Parliament, several projects have been submitted that cancel the measures introduced by the Bolojan Government through the first package of fiscal-budgetary measures assumed in the Parliament. The deputies of USR Cristina Pruna and Claudiu Năsui submitted to the Senate a project that introduces a deadline for the tax increases in the first package – January 2027.
In parallel, the PSD has submitted a project that reintroduces the exemption of CASS for certain vulnerable categories and one that corrects the payment of teachers and reintroduces the scholarships. Discussions on their edge warm the spirits in the coalition, in the context in which Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan would have asked the liberal parliamentarians not to support the projects.
“Expiration” term for the taxes in the first package: “If there are temporary measures, to put them temporarily”
The USR project provides for the return to the single standard 19% of January 2027, as well as the reduced tax quotas and the 10% dividend tax.
“This asymmetry between the permanent character of the additional fiscal burden and the temporary character of the budgetary spending discounts has generated a disproportion in the task supported by the citizens and the economic environment. While the state has secured increased revenues by increasing taxes, rights and benefits granted by various other normative acts were suspended, this was to be temporarily. Perspective, maintaining the tax increases in time, at the same time with the automatic reactivation of the extension expenses, risks creating a fiscal and social imbalance, increasing the pressure on the population and the business environment, without an objective justification once the crisis budget context will be attenuated ”, motivates the initiators.
They also note that the unlimited maintenance of increases contravenes the principle of predictability.
“This is how the prime minister said, and the president, that there are temporary measures. Or if they are temporary, to put them temporarily in the law.explains Claudiu Năsui for “Truth”.
What do economic analysts say
Economic analyst Cristian Păun emphasizes for “Adevărul” that the packages of fiscal-budgetary measures have not yet resolved the situation of the deficit, the decisions having to remain in the Government. At the same time, the latter is obliged to take reform measures and not just tax increases: “We did not solve the situation, not even with this increase in taxes. We see that the deficit still stays up, we still see that we have problems with increased taxes. So we do not solve the problems only with the increase of taxes, as we will not solve the problem of the deficit, which, I repeat, is unresolved, taking the tax, without any other way, without the Romanian state.
That is, without modernizing, to reform the Romanian state, you will have the same huge expenses, many of them useless, which you can not finance from the real economy by taxation. Or by taking the taxes back, you can do this only if you have enough tax space, ie you do not produce additional deficiency and indebtedness. The problem, in the end, remains, the problem of the deficit, and at least at this moment, the only possibility to solve it is to reduce the expenses ”.
“The fact that each politician is trying to get rid of these packages later, somehow tries to reposition themselves from these packages, he is first and foremost incorrect from the coalition” – Cristian Păun, economic analyst
“I do not understand why all these issues and initiatives that correct the legislation are not discussed in the coalition and why they do not have the same voice, all the parliamentarians who form this coalition today. The fact that each politician somehow tries to then get rid of these packages, somehow tries to reposition the first, and the first thing is to be in the first. The one, shows that, in fact, there is no common interest, to modernize, to improve the financial situation of Romania.e. People want to see that Romania is governed, that it is repaired. Politicians, if they continue to play with fire and continue the same harmful way to govern Romania’s finances, I don’t think they will have a political win. The electorate sees who with chaos and sees who with the repair at the house”, Says Cristian Păun.
“There should be a calendar, so that we will not wake up, as in the last three years, when we have had 6 fiscal fees dedicated to the business environment, without any predictability” – Adrian Negrescu, economic analyst
Economic analyst Adrian Negrescu points out that “There must be a predictability of fiscal measures meant to create an investment route for most of those who are courage to invest money in Romania. Indeed, there should be a very clear calendar related to the applicability of these measures, so that we will not wake up, as in the last three years, when we have had 6 fiscal taxes, without any taxation. one day on another, without any consultation with the business environment ”.
There is no need for a project in the Parliament for this, there are clear provisions in the Fiscal Code, and the responsibility rests with the Ministry of Finance, explains the economic analyst Adrian Negrescu.
The decision of the commissions for work and health in the Senate
We recall that, on Tuesday, the Senate’s work and health commissions gave a favorable report for the two legislative proposals initiated by the PSD regarding the elimination of the payment obligation of the social health insurance contribution (CASS) for the mothers on the child -raising leave, the veterans and the widows of war, the invalids, the former politicians. In favor of the projects, the representatives of PSD, gold, SOS and UDMR voted. The final decision will be taken by the Chamber of Deputies.
