135 ridesharing companies were checked by ANAF in the first two months of the year, the fines applied amounting to almost 3.3 million lei, after the anti-fraud inspectors found fiscal irregularities worth 78 million lei.
135 ridesharing companies, fined 3.3 million lei by ANAF
The General Anti-Tax Fraud Directorate (DGAF) within the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) continues the series of control actions at the national level, targeting economic operators that carry out alternative transport activities for people through ride-sharing digital platforms, for which, following risk analyses, a lack of compliance with fiscal obligations resulted.
The actions continue the steps started in the second half of 2025, regarding the intensification of checks and monitoring of income obtained from alternative transport activities, in order to prevent and combat tax evasion.
The results of the checks
Following the controls carried out in January and February 2026, the lack of compliance with legal obligations was confirmed in the case of a number of 135 verified companies. Thus:
• additional fiscal obligations were established in the total amount of 78,289,550 lei;
• fines were imposed in the total amount of 3,296,728 lei, mainly for failure to fulfill the obligation of economic operators to equip themselves with AMEF;
• confiscation measures were ordered for the amount of 55,303,296 lei collected in cash and for which supporting documents were not issued;
• measures were ordered to suspend the activity for a number of 4,910 cars used in the alternative transport activity, for not being equipped with AMEF;
In order to ensure the recovery of the damage caused to the state budget, Antifraud ANAF instituted, in the case of the previously mentioned companies, insurance measures in the total amount of 107,847,368 lei on the patrimonial assets, bank accounts and traceable amounts owned by the ride-sharing platforms. These measures were taken to prevent the theft or concealment of patrimonial assets.
Criminal referrals for serious cases. Case studies
As regards the economic operators that carry out activities of alternative transport of people, the anti-fraud investigations were also completed for a number of 11 cases in which suspicions regarding the commission of tax evasion crimes resulted. For this, in January and February 2026, the DGAF drew up notifications to the criminal prosecution bodies for a damage in the total amount of 126,418,722 lei, in order to continue the investigations and establish criminal liability, under the law.
Thus, in the case of a group consisting of 3 companies that were coordinated by the same person who intermediated the activity of more than 250 drivers, the anti-fraud inspectors found the non-declaration of the income made through digital platforms, through the use of financial circuits created with the purpose of hiding the payments made to the drivers and the fictitious highlighting of deductible VAT. The estimated damage to the state budget, in this case, is over 44 million lei.
In another case, a company was identified that did not register and did not fully declare the revenues obtained from the alternative transport services provided by means of more than 700 cars in order to evade the payment of fiscal obligations representing VAT. Also, the salary income paid to the drivers was not registered and declared. The estimated damage to the state budget, in this case, is over 34 million lei.
In another situation, it was identified that the administrator of a single alternative transport company caused damage to the state budget estimated at over 21 million lei. The representative of the company collected, during the verified period, for the alternative transport services provided by means of 164 cars, the total amount of over 41 million lei. The 164 drivers were convinced by the company representative to provide transport services without the legal forms of employment in exchange for the administrator retaining a reduced commission of 7% of the collected amounts. In order to avoid possible enforcement measures in order to recover the amounts owed to the state budget, the company representative requested the opening of the insolvency procedure.
“The actions of risk analysis, monitoring and control in the field of alternative transport will continue for operators with major fiscal risk, including by capitalizing on the information obtained by using the available digital tools and by analyzing the data provided by the digital platforms, obtained as a result of the legislative instruments introduced in 2025“, ANAF informed.
In this context, ANAF reiterates the importance of voluntary compliance and encourages taxpayers active in the field of alternative transport to carefully analyze and evaluate the way they carry out their activity, given that practices aimed at artificially reducing the fiscal burden and transferring the risk to employed natural persons or to the public budget will be identified and sanctioned according to the law.
