“Birul” on banking operations, abolished with arguments by an expert: “I do not know who advises Nicușor Dan, only in the Belele he puts him”
The business environment proposed the introduction of a new “bir” for Romanians – a universal tax on all payments in Romania. Economists believe that the measure would be ridiculous and would destroy the economy even more.
Card shopping would become a memory if the new bir had been adopted. Photo: Archive
Professor at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Cristian Păun claims that we are dealing with an absurd new tax, which would do much more harm to the economy than good. If this bar had adopted, tax evasion would increase even more, and card payments would become history.
In a Facebook post, the well-known teacher lists what he calls “some problems with the tax on banking operations:”
Why is a stupid bir
“1. Double VAT: in principle, you cannot put two sales taxes. You cannot have a VAT and a paid fee when you buy VAT. Percent of what you buy. Either one or the other. There are two taxes that do the same. This case should be given up on VAT.the expert begins.
Another problem is that if this tax was adopted by the authorities, it would not be very clear what exceptions to the rule would exist, and everything would turn into an abuse for the population.
” the tax.attracts peacock attention.
Will cause discrimination
Instead, there will be many transactions that will not be taxed, which would also mean discrimination.
“he claims.
Cristian Păun. Photo: ASE Bucharest
At the same time, the population and companies will get to avoid banks, so as not to pay these absurd taxes. Thus, instead of attracting money to the budget, in reality the underground economy and tax evasion would increase.
Would push banks into bankruptcy and cause tax evasion
“4. The tax will encourage the avoidance of banks, avoiding electronic payments. We will all go on cash. The anagators will return to cash payments. Evasion increases. 5. Cash preference will define Romania even more. Financial intermediaries will lose. However, they have the lowest earnings / client. Development, for the accumulation of capital. Cristian Păun concludes.
Where did the idea of the new bir come from
The business environment proposes the introduction of a universal tax on all payments in Romania. The measure could bring about 50 billion lei annually. The proposal was submitted during the consultations from Cotroceni regarding the balancing of the budget.
The new tax would be very small in value, but applied on any money movement in the economy, which would make it difficult to avoid and easy to collect, according to profit.ro. The system would transform commercial banks and payment processors into collection agents, which would automatically withhold the tax when processing each transaction, similar to the current banking commissions.
