President Klaus Iohannis, who was in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, reacted when asked about PSD’s proposal to excessively tax Romanians who have higher incomes than the head of state: “I think that in the meantime there will be significantly more people who have a higher salary, more than the president’s,” Johannis said, referring to the “measures plucked with tweezers from a possible package.”

• How many Romanians have a higher salary than the president

At the end of a press conference held in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, Klaus Iohannis was asked whether he thought such excessive taxation was appropriate and effective and whether he believed the coalition leaders would keep their promise that there would be no new ones. tax and tax increases.

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• “I think in the meantime there will be a lot more people on higher salaries than the president, but of course it’s a systemic problem and I don’t think it can be solved with specific measures.
• We must have a thorough, in-depth discussion to ensure the sustainability of the tax system.
• Thus, measures plucked with tweezers from a possible package can be discussed. Obviously, everything needs to be discussed, but I expect that the coalition will find an integration solution.
• If we want to go to salaries and taxation, fine, but let’s do it on the whole system, reboot it and look for something called sustainability and social justice,” Klaus Iohannis said when asked in Buenos Aires on Tuesday if it expedient and effective such retaxation and if the leaders of the coalition keep their promise that there will be no tax increases and no new taxes.

Who does Cholaku want to overtax

Marcel Cholaku said on Tuesday that two options are being discussed at the level of the government coalition regarding high state incomes: banning the accumulation of state pension – salaries and additional taxation of income that exceeds the gross salary of the country’s president. , noting that, in his opinion, the approach to taxation is correct.

• “If it is constitutional, we will go for the legislative option so that it does not happen like this. (…)
• I think the right approach is a tax zone, by thresholds, not by additional taxes, not by double taxation, and this is where the Ministry of Finance will come and present to us, as income, how many people exceed the gross salary of the president, so that we can formulate an idea.
• We cannot add the sum of three pensions with a special component. There are also such situations. They are not correct. The private sphere was not discussed, we are only talking about revenues from the Romanian state,” said Čolaku.

What does Chuke say

Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke also confirmed that the coalition has also discussed a proposal to tax those salaries that are higher than that of the country’s president, but no decision has been made on this, and an analysis by the Ministry of Finance on the subject is awaited.

• “I’m not commenting until the Treasury comes with a measure, that’s true, and I’m very honest with you that last night (Monday night, no) we were discussing and saying what are the options by which we can resolve these measures , and of course the inclusion of a proposal was discussed, but this proposal must be translated into a measure that materializes in a decision after we get all the documents on the table.
• And we are not discussing excessive taxation, but we are discussing taxation of certain incomes,” said Nicolae Chuke.

Answering the question whether it is about taxing state employees whose salary is higher than that of the president, Chuke said that “the basic idea was that those whose salary is higher than that of the president of the country.”

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