IT entrepreneurs warn that the exodus of the specialists will accentuate, and the Romanian companies will become less competitive outside the country. The increase of taxes and the lack of a coherent policy are factors that will affect the entire industry, they say.
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“In the nine years of entrepreneurship in the IT industry, I had to handle changes of the Fiscal Code or labor legislation every year. As a result of these changes, the costs with the employees have doubled in the last four years. At the same time, we also felt a significant increase in the taxes we pay. Each time we build the annual budgets, they must be adjusted at least twice during the year, which has repercussions on the business plan, the speed with which you have to attract new customers in the portfolio to reach your target set at the beginning of the year ”declares Adrian Herdan, the Devhd CEO, for “Adevărul”.
According to his words, this pressure from the authorities who permanently adjust the fiscal system also comes in the context in which the local market is not a sufficiently solid consumption market, employers no longer have access to the best specialists in the labor market and the operational costs have increased substantially in recent years due to the fiscal measures taken by the intellectual governments, with the indoor, with the indicestity of the environment. It.
“The increase of taxes and social contributions will accelerate the exodus of professionals in Romania and will contribute to increasing costs in local companies”the entrepreneur expects.
All this, he says, directly affects the competitiveness externally, from the perspective of prices. “At this moment, the only way we can remain relevant on the international market is by the value added and the high quality of the services we offer. Romania urgently needs a clear and sustainable strategy for innovation and research in the IT sector. In the absence of a well -defined direction, We risk remaining significant as a result of the global technological progress ”, concludes Adrian Herdan.
