The administrative and bureaucratic burden of honest taxpayers with measures as a split VAT payment is not, in the long run, a good strategy to combat tax evasion states the Foreign Investors Council ( FIC) in a press release.

Govnet Conferences organized on February 9 another exclusive Power Breakfast on State Aid, focusing on practical aspects regarding the implementation of State Aid Schemes in Romania.

It was a great opportunity for potentially eligible companies to find more about financing of investments from non-reimbursable funds directly from the people involved in the process: representatives of the Directorate for State Aid department in the Ministry of Finance, representatives of companies that already benefited from state aid and consultants that assisted investment projects in the past.

The pay increase passed on Monday by Parliament will determine a growth of Romania's budgetary deficit to rd 3.5pct of the Gross Domestic Product in 2017, way higher than the International Monetary Fund's recommendation of 2pct of the GDP, on Wednesday said IMF resident representative for Romania and Bulgaria Alejandro Hajdenberg.  This will trigger a cut in investment spending or additional taxes, added Hajdenberg quoted by Agepress. 

Within the IMF mission of March 2016, and also based on the subsequent updates, he said, IMF reached the conclusion that given the circumstances Romania's deficit will exceed 3pct of the GDP in 2017 - rd 3.2pct of the GDP. After this pay increase, maintaining the deficit at 3pct of the GDP would be harder, Hajdenberg told AGERPRES on Wednesday, adding that the IMF estimates a net impact of the pay increase of 0.3 - 0.4 percentage points of the GDP.

Compared with the same period of last year, the turnover of the industry sector both for domestic and external market decreased in nominal terms by four percent shows the monthly report issued by the National Institute of Statistics. In July 2016, the turnover in industry, per total (domestic and non-domestic market), decreased in nominal terms both compared to the previous month by 4.0% and compared to the corresponding month of the previous year by 3.3%.

After losing an estimated 500 million EUR investment from Daimler in Sebes for new a engine plant with 1500 employees, Ministry of Economy, Costin Borc, reveals that Romania might not have been in the cards from the beginning: "The main condition for Daimler's investment was that the production to reach in a maximum of 17 hours from that factory's gate to the plant in Bremen, and from this point of view, Sebes was not a serious competitor for the engine plant, because of the logistic chains."