Finance Minister Adrian Cachiu said on Thursday that special pensions would be taxed and after the analysis of these allowances was completed, it “will be presented to the coalition with all the legal, economic and fiscal arguments”.

• “A series of simulations is conducted, a number of data are collected. We work together with all the institutions involved because you have to have the data. On the other hand, the analysis also takes into account the decisions of the Constitutional Court. There are two aspects. The discussion was on pensions in general, regardless of whether they are contributory pensions, at level 1 – state military pensions or allowances of a different nature, which to some extent fall under what is meant by the PNRR milestone with pension reform, whether from the system of contributions and the second, or which arises in connection with this reform, taxation of part of these revenues.
• The analysis in the Ministry of Finance is ongoing. It’s a series of simulations that take place, it’s a series of data that’s collected. We work together with all the institutions involved because you have to have the data. On the other hand, the analysis also takes into account the decisions of the Constitutional Court. You know that this topic has been the subject of numerous appeals to the Constitutional Court,” Adrian Caciu said on Thursday on Antena 3, news.ro writes.

He also explained that with regard to the analysis of taxation of special pensions, it must be very thoughtful and take into account elements of fiscal and economic modeling.

• “So the approach cannot be somewhat simplistic or statist. The reasoning, as well as the fiscal and economic modeling elements, should be very well placed. And from this point of view, together with the Ministry of Labor and other institutions, the analysis is related to the objective elements of each pension system that we analyze. On the other hand, the prime minister is very right. When you enter the zone of different income tax thresholds, you should also have a system. Also discussed was what we did as a fiscal adjustment. You also need a model and a digital way to monitor revenue to be able to determine the amount of total revenue, see if a certain threshold is exceeded, if a revenue threshold is being interfered with, and if another threshold is being interfered with. So the analysis is a bit broader than it seems.
• In the media, I noticed the time frame, or it can be done overnight, but when it is ready, it will be presented to the coalition with all the legal, economic and fiscal arguments, and the political decision will be made in the calculations of the coalition and will be announced by the leaders of the coalition. It is not tomorrow, because I would like, I would like to have at the end of this debate, because it is also a debate that is born as a topic, to have a solution that will never be blocked again, or to be very clear what is embedded in the pension reform” , – also clarified the Minister of Finance.â

He added that over time the state was given a verdict regarding special pensions, but it is necessary to weigh everything well and find a feasible solution.

• “That’s why we need to look at the status, and not put a phrase, a purely political phrase that was put over time – special pensions. Each type of income of this kind has its own law at the base, and then each of them must be observed according to the way in which it was born as a type of income.
• We have to think twice, because if you come up with a solution that later, a month or two later, turns out to be unworkable, you become untrustworthy for the intervention that you have made as a state, as a government, as a parliament. a certain topic. There will be taxation,” Cachiu concluded.

Chuke: Military pensions are pensions for years of service, they are not special pensions

Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke said on Thursday that military pensions were long-service pensions, not special pensions, and that it had been decided at coalition level that anything that meant regulating pay and pensions was working group analysis , which will be created. at the level of the Ministry of Labor.

• “Military pensions, regardless of the field in which they work, are state military pensions, they are retirement pensions, they are not special pensions.
• At the level of the Coalition, we decided that everything related to the regulation of salaries and pensions is an analytical activity within the framework of working groups that will be created at the level of the Ministry of Labor, which will include representatives of state structures, as well as representatives of employers, trade unions, and civil society in order to by the end of the year we had what would represent the fulfillment of our milestone in PNRR and in terms of salaries and pensions.” This was announced by Prime Minister Nikolay Chuke on Thursday in Rymnik-Vilcha.

Answering the question about taxation of special pensions, he said:

• “Taxation, as it stands now, is an aspect that should be very well connected to the digitization of the system in the Ministry of Finance, so that we can have a system that really gives us a picture of everything that the revenue part means, and that way the level is set taxation. The way things look now, we cannot make this decision,” Chuke said.

According to government sources cited Economedia.roThe European Commission would officially ask Romania to include military pensions in the reform of the pension system, which will be based on the principle of contributions.

According to the latest property declaration, in 2020 Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke had an army pension of 214,990 lei, which is lower than the same year’s income of more than 166,000 lei (148,446 lei allowance for the period when he was Minister of Defense and another 17,683 lei as Prime Minister).

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