It is difficult to agree to an increase in revenue as a share of GDP as long as money is not spent responsibly, ANAF does not fight tax evasion, compliance with the law is optional and budgets are built based on need, not ability, it said in a message sent on Monday Confederation of Concordia Employers.

The organization is a representative confederation of employers for the business environment, which unites 16 key sectors of the Romanian economy, more than 2,200 companies with more than 330,000 employees, whose total contribution is 26% of GDP.

In a message sent on Monday, Concordia expresses almost utopian wishes: for politicians to stop wasting public money, to end impunity before the law, no tax evasion, digitization of ANAF, cost evaluation according to OECD rules, administrative reform from scratch and a new simple , the intended fiscal code without loopholes.

Representatives of the Confederation blame not only this government, but all previous governments, but note that “it is not normal that in the middle of the year we find out that we do not have enough money!”. They say that a company in a similar situation would go bankrupt if it found itself in such a situation.

Dan Shuku, president of Concordia: “Our message is simple. The administration needs to be reformed and simplified, waste to be stopped, ANAF to be digitized. The government, like any private company, should build its budget according to possibilities, not according to needs. Opportunities are always limited, and needs were and will be endless.

There is still talk of canceling some of the recently introduced tax breaks. Objects for the field of construction or agriculture were presented at the presentation as an important component of the economic development policy, according to the Government. At the time of acceptance, no impact study was presented, and later, during operation, the economic result of these facilities was not evaluated or presented by anyone. Now, no matter how arbitrarily he introduced them, the Government wants to eliminate them and bases its decision arithmetically, simplistically,” says Shuku, who asks the Government to stop circumventing the Law on Social Dialogue and stop ignoring the opinions of the Fiscal Council or those from the Economic and Social Council.

On the other hand, the government rarely really heeded the warnings sent by the private sector. Especially now, in the pre-election year, it is hard to believe that the signals about the rejection of populism will be taken into account.

Concordia members say some of the activities that are spreading in the public space cause them concern “because of the consequences that we expect.” Some of them will cause prices to rise or significantly reduce companies’ profits and investments. Others will create big problems for some industries without bringing much money to the state budget. “It is impossible not to have a calendar that at least meets the minimum 6-month period established by the Fiscal Code,” concluded the members of the Confederation of Employers.