The Minister of Finance, Marcel Bolosh, at a press conference on Saturday criticized the institutions subordinate to the ministry, which “show off” the achieved plans, he cited the example of the customs administration. Bolosh said that after Epiphany, he will ask the prime minister to fire several heads of institutions such as the Customs Service and the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF).

• “I can no longer tolerate embarrassing praise and tell you directly, with the subject and the predicate, to the customs administration of Romania, that it has fulfilled its plan in the amount of one and a half billion customs duties.
• Except for this! I give them the bad news: they will start the next year with five billion lei per month. If they don’t make their plan, they go home, there is no other way out, and I say this directly and harshly: this is the goal with which we start negotiations with the Romanian customs administration,” said Bolosh, quoted by News.ro.

He announced that he would demand a change in the positions of some ANAF and customs officials:

• “After the Epiphany, I will speak to the public and ask the Prime Minister to dismiss several managers from the most important institutions for Romania, and here I mean the Romanian Customs Service, also with subject and predicate, I say this, and the National Agency of Fiscal Administration.
• Of course, here I do not want to condition anything or appear rude in relations with the Prime Minister, we have correct institutional relations, but these are too important institutions for the Romanian state, on which the functioning of the Romanian state depends. , and therefore I am intolerant of incapacity, participation and disorder.’

In this context, Bolosh referred to the fact that he proposed “zero tolerance for tax evasion”, arguing that the plan in this regard “is not random” but is “complex, articulated, integrated”, built in stages, starting with the implementation electronic invoice module at the beginning of the year, continuing, also from January 1, the customs declaration of all goods originating from intra-Community purchases, since 40% of the VAT gap of €9 billion is from these purchases. Other stages of the plan are the introduction of a pre-filled VAT declaration from the summer of this year, the introduction of mandatory accounting reporting, the introduction of anti-tax fraud modules for electronic invoices, electronic cash registers, e-transport, the introduction of seals for electronic goods, the introduction of scanners at customs from the first quarter of next year, the Minister of Finance also said. (Photo: Dreamstime.com)