The 12 new specific support measures for companies announced on Thursday by the Minister of Finance

In a press conference held on Thursday at the Government, Finance Minister Alexandru Nazare gave new details from the package of support measures for companies. Most of the measures had been announced about two hours before at the Tax EU conference.

1. “We are solving the problem in the area of ​​credits for the research and development support area. In addition to the existing deduction of 50% today, we introduce a tax credit of 10%– a request that came to us for a very long time, but was never operated,” said Minister Nazare on Thursday. The Government will also increase the attractiveness of the reinvested profit facility by making it possible to use accelerated depreciation for this facility as well.

2. “We introduce 65% super-accelerated over-damping compared to 50%, as it is currently, for investments in equipment in 2026, because we want investments in production, we want investments in equipment in 2026. We are also increasing the ceiling for fixed assets from 2,500 lei to 5,000 lei. This ceiling has not been updated for a very long time, and the doubling of this ceiling was necessary and requested by the business environment”, explained the Minister of Finance

3. “We introduce super deductions for the expenses area, for companies that want to list. We want to encourage listings. These companies have expenses both in the year of listing and in the year before listing. We are introducing an additional deduction of 50% when calculating the fiscal result for them”, said Alexandru Nazare.

4. In addition, the Govt will finalize the deadline for declaring and paying the profit tax on June 25, as a simplification measure. This measure is also very important, because it ensures clarity and predictability in the market.

5. The term of employment of the employee for the micro-enterprise will be increased from 30 days to 90 days, “because there were many problems in practice. Some could not operate the employments within 30 days”, says the minister.

6. The Government will allow the sale of an immobilization annually that is not included in the ceiling of 100,000 euros for micro. “We do this because it happened that, due to a sale, some entrepreneurs exceeded this ceiling. We also allow the return to micro status if the market conditions and micro conditions are met by him. In this case, if he exceeds the ceiling of 100,000 euros and the following year meets the ceiling of 100,000 euros, he can return if he meets the conditions to the status of micro”, says Nazare

7. Also, the Government will solve inclusively the issue of medical leaves – complained about by companies – in the sense that “we establish the 30 days that are allowed annually for this, so that we no longer have problems of losing the status of micro in this case”, declares the minister.

8. Also like oxygen for small and medium companies, an important measure is increasing the VAT ceiling on collection. “This ceiling of VAT on collection was set for approximately 5 years at 4.5 million lei and we are increasing it to 5 million lei in 2026 and 5.5 million lei in 2027,” details Nazare

9. The Government will also establish the support program, National Facility for Training and Technical Assistance of PPP Projects. “We will not be able to move forward with PPP projects if we do not have dedicated tools for supporting documentation, writing documentation and for technical assistance support for these projects, and including mechanisms by which these projects are selected and approved at the government level. In the area of ​​state aid and in the area of ​​company support schemes, we are somehow changing the existing paradigm,” the government official added. Practically, a state aid scheme is established for strategic projects. These projects start from 1 billion lei or 200 million euros.

Romania did not have such an instrument for attracting large investments. “And when it was in competition with countries in the region to attract a large investment, it did not have the necessary tools to be able to convince the respective investor to come to Romania in real time. It is open both for Romanian investments and for attracting foreign investments. It is an important scheme that can be part of the tools that Romanian economic diplomacy can use, but also for large Romanian investments that want to develop they can have access to this scheme, speaking of a minimum share capital of 25 million lei and an asset value of at least 50 million lei,” says Nazare

10. The government will try to reduce the trade deficit and will redirect “important resources to areas where we really need to support the deficit, recover these deficits on the trade balance. “We have two other important areas on which we are applying: It is about the valorization of mineral resources, for which we are thinking of a dedicated instrument. Such an instrument was needed and we took note of the list of critical materials, as it was proposed by the European Commission, and we will support through this financing instrument the area of ​​valorization of mineral resources and also the area of ​​new technologies. Another dedicated scheme concerns new technologies”, says the minister.

11. There will be the like a ceiling of 100 million euros intended for Romanians in the diasporawho want to come and invest in Romania, explained Alexandru Nazare in more detail.

12. We put the state banks to work: including Eximbank will have to diversify the products it offers for the internationalization of Romanian business. “We asked them to develop new products, four new products are proposed here, including guarantees for working capital credit, guarantees for credit granted to Romanian companies that invest in the region, counter-guarantees in order to support the internationalization of Romanian business and our much more active presence in the region”.

The calculated budgetary impact for 2026 is approximately 2.1-2.2 billion lei, but the impact for all financing schemes, of course, they must be notified, is in the medium term, we are talking here about 5-7 years, the term of development of these schemes. In the first year, the impact is 2.1-2.2 billion lei. This impact will be mitigated because we intend to approve this package together with the administration package, the minister also explained in Thursday's conference.