The fiscal discourse of politicians, disassembled by a teacher at ASE: “Solidarity is not made from Mercedes”

Professor Cristian Păun, from ASE Bucharest, explains in 5 points, clear and in the sense of anyone, as Romania could escape the deficit without increasing taxes and taxes.

The Romanians are waiting for higher taxes and taxes. Photo: Adevărul archive

Romania seems to have chosen the bitter pill of austerity, and daily to Romanians are announced, on sources, new and new taxes and taxes. Although we do not even have a government and a prime minister yet, the authorities want to go on taxation and redistribution rather than efficient.

The remark belongs to Cristian Păun, a teacher at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, an expert in macroeconomics. In a Facebook post, he abolishes the idea of ​​overgrowth and explains why we have a huge deficit, but especially how the situation could be adjusted without resorting to increased taxes and new taxes. If politicians would take some logical measures, they would reduce the deficit to 1-2%, ie below 3%accepted by the European Union and far less than it was in the last year-9.3%.

The lies of the elected to taxes, dismantled by a well -known teacher

“I do not know what calculations the” specialists “of the parties make, but the job is very simple: from VAT we lose about 30%annually, at a VAT collected today of 24 billion euros, ANAF loses from collection annually about 10 billion euros, it should receive about 34 billion per VAT of 19%“Writes the teacher.

And that's not all. Romania loses billions and for other causes, says Cristian Păun. “On the smuggling and counterfeiting from tobacco we have about 2 billion euros / year. On the other products, this phenomenon adds about 1 billion euros loss for the state budget. In total, about 3 billion euros“He says.

50 billion European money, lost due to incompetence

At the same time, Romania has lost no less than 50 billion euros due to the bad absorption of European funds. With this money, the economy of Romania would look different, and the money would not be a problem. Therefore, the authorities would have solutions to access European funds, but also a better collection of taxes, especially VAT, and reduce the underground economy.

“From the European funds about 50 billion euros remained unquestion (about 70% PNR and 90% of the classic, cohesion funds). We have about 2 years from PNRR and about 3 years from the classic ones.adds the expert.

Through an administrative reform, Romania would earn other good billions, money that would come in particular through savings to the budget.

Other good billions saved from administrative reform

“If we also modernize Romania (for example, if we move from counties to regions, we save 2/3 of the budget allocated for the administrations of today), we will save some more billions of good euros a year. We can quickly estimate as, only those expenses are public.”, Points out Professor Păun.

Polyticians, regardless of the parties from which they come, show not only lack of understanding, but also lack of empathy and elementary knowledge. And the chaos is not far, warns Professor Cristian Păun.

“I do not understand where all this tail. Why don't the politicians get to work? Why are they going to the hour of death and keep it next to taxation … It is clear that they want to block everything. To push us towards chaos and anticipated. I know the growth.”, The teacher concluded.