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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...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu declared yesterday, after the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tanczos Barna, Minister of Finance, that the budget for the current year will be built with caution, so as to fall within a 7% deficit, according to...

For several asset classes, 2024 was a remarkable year: Bitcoin rose to historical highs, gold recorded its best performance in the last 14 years, and the US dollar rose due to the evolution of the US economy, according to an analysis by...

Despite many countries switching from fossil fuels to cleaner ones, global coal consumption will reach an all-time high of 164 Exajoules (EJ) in 2023, according to a Visual Capitalist analysis highlighting coal's role in the energy mix...

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 year 2024 will not be great for stocks, believes Marko Kolanovic, chief strategist for global markets at JP Morgan, writes Business Insider. In a note to clients published mid-week, Kolanovic wrote that investors should prefer cash over...

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...

Rata de dobândă pe scadenţa 10 ani a României s-a ajustat cu 27,9% în 2020, arată Andrei Rădulescu, director analiză macro la Banca Transilvania, într-o notă de cercetare. Acesta punctează că rata dobânda pe 10 ani s-a consolidat în ultima...

All the banks that have granted CHF loans will be audited by the National Consumer Protection Authority (ANPC), its chairman Bogdan Pandelică, announced yesterday in the Economic Commission of the Senate.

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Consilierul prezidenţial Cosmin Marinescu afirmă, într-un interviu acordat News.ro, că prognoza de creştere economică a Guvernului Grindeanu, de 5,2%, "pare lipsită de realism", iar explicaţii pentru care "prognoza este săltată"...

Former president Traian Băsescu recently attacked NBR governor Mugur Isărescu, including him on the list of those who don't realize the responsibility that having a significant position entails, together with interim Bucharest mayor Răzvan...

The value added tax and the excises may be cut earlier than we would have expected, specifically, by the end of 2015, as announced on February 19th by Darius Vâlcov, the minister of Public Finance, at the "Romania's development in the new...

Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, Corneliu Vadim Tudor and Teodor Meleşcanu yesterday expressed their support for the candidacy of Victor Ponta in second round of the presidential elections.

The worsening of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict could create serious problems for Romania and the Eurozone, said the specialists present at the "Romania Trade & Export Finance Conference", which was held yesterday for the first time...

Every politician has a skeleton in their closet.

Almost half of the domestic companies are led by women (43% in 2012), said Andreea Paul, the vice-president of the Budget, Finance and Banks Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.

Victor Ponta yesterday announced that this year Romania will have a bigger GDP than in 2008, after the National Statistics Institute announced an economic growth rate of 2.7%, in the first nine months of 2013.

• Update 12:26 Schaechter: "The authorities have clearly said that there are no intentions to raise the flat tax rate" 

• The leu risks a depreciation of 15-20% 

• State aid of 8 million Euros for the hiring of 100 workers 

Un spectru bântuie viaţa politică românească: taxarea proporţională. Alianţa socialistă şi-a prezentat programul economic. Printre punctele aces-tui program se numără revenirea la sistemul taxării proporţionale din vremea regimului socialist....

Ceva se întâmplă. Oamenii par să cunoască din ce în ce mai puţin despre sfera politicii. Nu mă refer anume la scandalurile zilei, care oricum atrag din ce în ce mai puţină audienţă. Mă refer, în general, la orice fel de informaţie politică. Am...

Jeffrey Franks, the head of the IMF mission to Romania, criticized the recent vote of the Romanian Senate to lower the taxation rate from 16% to 10%.

The Fiscal Council considers that the reduction of the income tax from 16% to 10% (ed. note. which the Senate approved on Tuesday) poses a significant threat to the Romania"s ability to meet the budget targets for the medium run assumed as...

• Sulfina Barbu: "In the next two or three weeks, the Government will finalize new measures intended to support the business sector" 

• Iulian Urban claims that the Government will eventually pass this bill 

It seems as if Andreea Paul Vass, advisor to the PM on economic issues, is doing her best to embarrass him, by throwing around figures pulled out of thin air, in a domain which requires high specialization: the state budget.

• Pambuccian: "Don"t expect anything spectacular. There is a major fear of < taking the bull by the horns >"  

On Saturday, the government has decided to raise VAT by 5%, from 19% to 24%, after the Constitutional Court decided that the government decision to cut pensions by 15% was unconstitutional. The flat tax rate has remained unchanged at 16%.

• Angela Merkel, Germany" chancellor, may attend the inauguration of the EUR 45 million factory  

• (Interview with Mr. Sebastian Vlădescu, the Minister of Public Finance) 

• "There will be no fiscal amnesty while I am the minister of Finance", he says in an interview given to BURSA 

The hike of the flat tax rate is the last and worst solution for plugging the budget deficit, and the Romanian government and the IMF officials are all aware of it, just as they perform the quarterly evaluation process for the release of the...

With just two exceptions - BURSA and "Adevărul financiar" - the entire media yesterday got involved in the hysteria around the so-called "imminent" increase of the VAT and of the tax rate.

20.12.2009 On the political stage, we find that the political agreement signed between PD-L and UDMR, the current governing parties, is valid until the elections for the parliament of 2012. Among other things, the protocol includes keeping the...

• Crin Antonescu may tour the country with Mircea Geoană in his electoral campaign