Well-known university professor, after paying his local taxes twice: “I hope that, by the morning, the incomparable mayor will not tell us that he has calculated again”

The well-known university professor and political scientist Cristian Preda said on Wednesday that he paid his taxes in Sector 2 on Monday, and on Wednesday he found out from the media that he still has a difference to pay, which he did.

The professor of political science wrote on his Facebook account that he learned from the media “that, in sector 2, the taxes have been recalculated, and if you paid what was set yesterday or the day before yesterday, you still have some money to take out of your pocket.”

Cristian Preda said that “he was, like most Romanians, disciplined and I sent the money owed since Monday”, so he checked on gișeul.ro, where indeed some money had appeared to be paid.

“Not much compared to what I had already paid: 46 lei. I paid them,” he continued.

“I hope that, until tomorrow morning, the incomparable mayor Hopincă will not tell us that he calculated again and got a different total…”, Cristian Preda concluded his post.

His message comes after many citizens of sector 2, led by mayor Rareș Hopincă, accused the fact that, in addition to the fact that the tax on buildings almost doubled, it also increased overnight compared to the values ​​that appeared on the ghișeul.ro platform on Monday.

Dragoș Cristian Vlad, the president of the Authority for the Digitization of Romania, which manages Ghișeul.ro, stated in a live intervention on Digi24 that the problems in Sector 2 were caused by the fact that “the values ​​that were also in the past years” were displayed, which changed after January 5, “when the colleagues from the town halls updated”.

In addition to the tax difference, in many cases only a few tens of lei, some of them paid physically at the town hall offices that they had to pay since the first day – January 5, which means that they may have to go again and sit at the counters.

Monday, January 5, was the first day Romanians could pay their taxes at ANAF offices in the country. They are increased, both for the population and for companies.

The second package of fiscal measures adopted by the Bolojan Government, which provides for the increase in taxes, entered into force on January 1, 2026. For example, Romanians will pay up to 3 times higher taxes for housing or land.

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