The government is proposing changes for people who have income from rent, bank interest, dividends, the stock market or other sources. According to the Trenuleț Decree, you are obliged to pay at least 1,980 lei in 2024 if your income is below 19,800 lei. In other words, for some Romanians it is an additional tax.

Tax consultant Cornel Grama drew attention to this.

“To other categories of income (rent, interest, dividends, stock market, other sources, etc.) they want to add a minimum CASS contribution of up to 6 minimum salaries based on the model of independent activity,” he says.

Essentially, he says, if you didn’t have a job and received about 10,000 lei in dividends in 2024, and you didn’t receive a salary, self-employment income, or CASS exemption, you would be coming with money from home to as long as it is based on the calculation of 6 salaries,” he states.

Text from the GEO project:

7. In Art. III point 30, paragraph (19) of Article 174^1 is amended and has the following content:

“(19) If natural persons in the situation provided for in Art. 170 paragraphs (2) (here annuity, dividends, stock exchange, interest, etc.) achieve a total annual net income lower than the level of 6 gross minimum wages per country, they must pay social health insurance contributions based on a calculation equal to 6 gross minimum wages in each country and submit the declaration provided for in Art. 122 until May 25 inclusive of the year following the income year for the final payment of the social health insurance contribution, if in the income year:

a) they did not receive income from wages equivalent to wages for which they have to pay social health insurance contributions at a level at least equal to 6 minimum gross wages for each country in force during the period in which they were received income;

b) did not belong to the categories of persons exempted from payment of contributions to social health insurance provided for in Art. 154 para. (1) lit. a) – c) and e) – g);

c) received income from among those provided for in Art. 155 para. (1) lit. b) (this includes independent activity), for which he must pay contributions to social health insurance at a level at least equal to 6 minimum gross salaries for the country, valid at the time of submission of the declaration provided for in Art. 120. “

Therefore, until May 25, 2025, these Romanians will have to pay this amount if they find themselves in the presented situation.

The Trenuleț decree changes a lot in terms of taxation, not only in the area of ​​budget expenditures.