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Romanian IT programmers will be exempt from income tax in 2009 as well, as the authorities decided to further encourage the development of the IT&C sector, Economy and Finance minister Varujan Vosganian said Wednesday.

The Romanian government changed the calculation of contributions programmers owe to the health insurance budget without prior public debates and the measure has negative effects on the IT&C industry, the employers’ association in the sector said.

People with disabilities and computer programmers will no longer pay their contribution to the social health insurance budget in ratio to the minimum wage, but depending on their incomes, according to a draft order of the president of the National Health Insurance House (CNAS), up for public debate.