Head of ANAF, explanation of how all companies, large and small, could waive tax declarations
ANAF inspector. Hotnews collage, illustrative photo: Dreamstime
Magdalena Grădinaru, deputy director of the Directorate for the Administration of Large Taxpayers, within the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF), recently said something in a forum that surprised the participants.
Thanks to the SAF-T electronic system, Romanian companies could escape the burden of submitting tax returns to ANAF, reported Startup Cafe, the HotNews website for small investors.
The statement was made last weekend by the deputy director of the Administration of Large Taxpayers within ANAF, at the Digital Accounting Summit event.
Magdalena Grădinaru was asked if there is “any chance to get rid of all tax declarations” if companies only submit the electronic form 406-SAF-T.
“Of course it is, yes”, replied Magdalena Grădinaru, who then spoke about SAF-T, the system that involves the electronic transmission of accounting data from taxpayers to the tax authorities.
For this, Grădinaru said, ANAF launched a pilot project, between October 2025 and August 2026, to check the consistency of the data reported through SAF-T compared to declarations 300 and 301. Large, medium and small companies from different fields are targeted, including VAT non-payers or taxpayers who apply pro-rata.
“At the end of this pilot project we want to re-fill declarations 300 and 301, after we evaluate this pilot project and after we evaluate the algorithms we will develop,” said Magdalena Grădinaru.
Grădinaru committed that by the end of the year ANAF will come up with a new guide for taxpayers, “so that the information is more accessible and filling out the declaration is easier”.
What is SAF-T?
SAF-T (Standard Audit File for Tax) is an international standard format, established by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for the electronic transmission of accounting and tax data from taxpayers to tax authorities.
In Romania, SAF-T is implemented under the name Declaration 406. Large taxpayers are already required to submit it.
SAF-T reporting involves declaring in digital format some aspects related to the companies' activity, namely financial-accounting information, details about the company's assets, information about stocks, about deliveries and purchases and other relevant details.
