Ilie Bolojan, about the PSD proposal to eliminate CASS for some categories: “It sounds good, but you create precedents.” What does maternity leave says
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. Radu Tuța / Agerpres
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan stated, in an interview for TVR, that he is reserved, in principle, to the establishment of exceptions to the payment of health insurance for certain categories, as announced, on Monday, PSD.
The Social Democrats have announced that they will submit several draft laws to relieve the payment of the health contribution on the child-raising leave, the war veterans, the political prisoners and the monks, although these exemptions were eliminated in the package 1 of budget balance.
Bolojan does not want to keep your exemptions
“We have not seen the proposals. In each discussion, proposals from the Parliament or from the parties come, but not all can be put into practice (…) A principle response: if we want to recover that the country we have to order in public finances, this means the elimination of more exemptions and exceptions,” said Ilie Bolojan, saying that for 16 million,
“The discussions sound good from a perspective, but you create precedent for other exceptions in other tax areas. There is no economic mobile perpetuum, this country can not spend more money than collect from people who work. I prefer to tell Romanians what is budget and economic,” said Prime Minister.
Referring to the child-raising leave, Bolojan gave the example of Germany in which the duration is one year, not two years, and the allowance is 65%, not 85% of the last income.
“We need to see what is our ability to support certain projects. Every 3 lei spent for operation, a leu is borrowed. I am very reserved to spend some money I have,” said Ilie Bolojan.
What PSD wants to change
Sorin Grindeanu, the PSD leader, announced on Monday, along with Senator Victoria Stoiciu and deputy Marius Budăi, that the Social Democrats will submit three “repairing projects for certain excesses that were part of package 1”.
These are legislative projects that will exempt from the payment of CASS the mothers on the child -raising leave, the political prisoners, the veterans and the widows of war, the monastic staff and the exemption from the tax for the people with serious disabilities.
PSD wants to change measures of the Bolojan Government and announces “repair for certain excesses” in the fiscal package 1
“There are things I said and when the 1st Package was adopted, I also told them and supported them, these things, in the coalition to be corrected now, when we talk about package 2,” said Sorin Grindeanu.
The first draft law aims to exempt from paying the health contribution for mothers on the child -raising leave and will have an impact of 80 million euros per year, according to the calculations made by the PSD.
The second project submitted by the PSD provides for the exemption from CASS payment for war veterans, invalids, politically and monastic staff, ie the nuns and monks. The budget impact of the project is 25 million euros per year.
The third project will introduce the payment of CASS for Ukrainian refugees receiving state aid.
