“The taxes have not increased for nothing.” The explanations of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan on the budget deficit after the first eight months and the budget rectification

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan told Digi24 on Monday that we are in a “stage of budget stabilization”, in which “we no longer have to increase taxes”, but “we have to collect them”, but also “to further subtract the operating expenses of the state”.

The prime minister was asked if the taxes increased “for nothing”, considering that the budget deficit climbed to 4.54% in the first eight months of the year, and in the same period of 2024 it was 4.59%.

“The taxes did not increase in vain, because it was an additional influence of revenues to the state budget, but we must understand that certain increases of wages, which were generated last year, and pension increases, which were applied from the spring of next year or in the autumn, even if the pensions were not raised, this year, this year, this year, this year, this year, this year, Last year, “said Ilie Bolojan.

Another reason invoked by the prime minister was that “the salary tire was greater than the initial estimated one” when forming the budget for 2025.

“There was an estimate of decrease of expenses by about 5% on the wages component, because for the first six months, these measures to reduce the costs with wages were not taken, on the contrary, some dispensation was given by approving almost 100 memorandums through which they were exempted from the vacation, and the institution was more Initially, both because they were annualized, so they were applied for all 12 months, from the beginning of this year, but also by the fact that they did not decrease, “Bolojan continued.

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