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With an estimated value of $311 billion, the physical gold held by the population - nicknamed "the gold under the pillow” - far exceeds the official reserves of the Central Bank of Turkey and the gold savings kept in the banking...

We are faced with a series of decisions presented by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan as necessary, but without the Executive having offered the general public a clear analysis of their economic effects. Beyond the image arguments, what is missing is...

Tax consultant Gabriel Biriş, a lawyer and former secretary of state at the Ministry of Finance during the Cioloş government, claims that the package of fiscal changes proposed by the Bolojan Cabinet is the lesser evil.

The Ministry of Finance yesterday made the legislative package on fiscal-budgetary measures aimed at reducing the current budget deficit transparent, a package that provides for doubling the bank turnover tax, increasing VAT, increasing excise...

For the sustainability of public debt, given that the budget deficit reached 9.3% of Gross Domestic Product last year, a massive fiscal adjustment is necessary, i.e. a drastic reduction in public spending and better collection of revenues to the...

PSD does not give up on the idea of establishing a solidarity tax and introducing, after the digitalization of ANAF, the progressive tax, said Petre Florin Manole, the spokesperson for the social-democratic political party, yesterday.

Both George Simion and Nicuşor Dan are perceived as two anti-system candidates, both criticizing the current political class and the corruption existing at the government level and in other state institutions.

The progressive tax is not on the agenda of the current government, as long as one of the coalition partners considers the approach to the subject as a red line regarding its participation in the Executive, said Marius Alin Andries, Secretary of...

The year 2024 was marked by economic-financial and socio-political convulsions, which accentuated Romania's vulnerabilities in the face of domestic and international challenges. From the alarming budget deficit to the uncontrolled increase in...

The second half of 2024 represented a critical turning point for Romania's economy and political stability. In an attempt to counter the ever-expanding budget deficit and ensure macroeconomic balance, the government implemented a series of...

While pro-European parties are trying their best to block Călin Georgescu from running in the presidential elections, citing reasons for which they have no evidence or have evidence that they have not yet presented, journalists avoid talking...

Fitch revised the outlook of our country's long-term foreign currency credit rating from "stable" to "negative" and maintained the rating at "BBB-", in a climate marked by political uncertainty, expectations of a more...

REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) offer individuals access to investments in assets such as office, commercial or logistics buildings, Adrian Tănase, Director General of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), said yesterday during a debate on...

The European Commission asked the Ciolacu government to reduce the turnover ceiling for the taxation of micro-enterprises from 500,000 euros to 88,500 euros, in accordance with the recommendations of the World Bank, according to sources from the...

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

The budget deficit continued its decline in the second financial quarter as well, its growth being a little smoother compared to the first three months of 2024. Thus, if at the end of March the budget deficit recorded for the first quarter stood...

The first semester of 2024 ended with real estate transactions of 419 million euros in Romania, more than twice as much as in the same period last year (when the total value of transactions in the first six months was 167 million euros), and the...

The first month of summer was more hectic than usual due to the fact that, in addition to the budgetary problems faced by the Government, on June 9 we had European parliamentary and local elections, new amendments to normative acts in the field...

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Following the crises that followed from 2019 until now and the over-indebtedness of companies, individuals, but also of states, it is vital that the mechanisms to prevent insolvency or bankruptcy work correctly and an interpretation agreed by all...

The government is decided to increase the gross minimum wage in the economy to 3700 lei, but before that it will have a discussion with the social partners - employers and unions, said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu at the end of the Executive...

France and Canada are the countries that obtain the highest revenues in the world from taxes on CO2 emissions, according to World Bank figures, cited by visualcapitalist.com.

Through the National Recovery and Resilience Program (PNRR), Romania has committed to carrying out tax reform in 2025. Until the elections for the Romanian Parliament in December 2024, citizens would have the opportunity to participate in an...

The European Commission and the European Parliament should approve the progressive taxation of large fortunes, according to a study by the global non-governmental organization Oxfam International, which campaigns for the reduction of social...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

With an index of 49 points out of a possible 100 for the first semester of 2024, Romanian entrepreneurship is below the threshold of emergence, according to the work carried out by the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private...

Our country is not in recession and the National Bank of Romania does not have such a forecast, Governor Mugur Isărescu said yesterday, during the conference where he presented the "Quarterly Report on Inflation".

The political scene in our country was awakened to reality, from the sweet sleep it had fallen into during the winter holidays, on January 9, when hundreds of farmers began to move to the Capital, dissatisfied with the fiscal measures imposed by...

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...

The main banks listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had an exceptional evolution last year, in conditions where high interest rates and a certain robustness of the economy, which meant that borrowers did not have payment problems, were...

The first government round within a political coalition marked the second half of last year not through the lens of exceptional results, but through the continuation of taking measures that had a negative impact on the business environment, in...

The government was focused in the 4th financial quarter to reduce the budget deficit that it faced in the middle of the year and in the 3rd quarter, so that the officials in Brussels do not block the allocation of funds for our country from the...

The faulty management of the former management team of ASF, headed by Nicu Marcu, with particular consequences in the insurance market, where in recent years we have witnessed the bankruptcies of the companies City Insurance and Euroins Romania,...

The "train" ordinance, which was on the agenda of yesterday's Government meeting, once again disrupted the business environment, because, in addition to postponing some payments and restructuring the activity of some public...

The main concern of the Government in the last month of autumn was to correct the errors crept into law 296/2023 through which fiscal changes were made, a normative act that passed the Parliament through the assumption of responsibility by the...

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly used by the industry of services offered to businesses, because the use of this technology brings added value to the activity of companies and increases their competitiveness, said yesterday, the...

The terrorist attacks that took place on October 7 in Israel, followed by the bombing of Gaza by the armed forces led from Tel Aviv, the attack in Brussels and the return of terrorist threats in the states of Western Europe made October the...

The business environment in our country must quickly adapt to the fiscal changes contained in law 296/2023, taking into account the fact that some of them entered into force yesterday, November 1, others will enter into force on November 11, and...

Romania's economy is showing weaker growth than previously anticipated, say OTP Bank analysts, who attribute the slowdown to challenges in the services and industry sectors, fiscal consolidation and weakening activity in the eurozone. In...