social contribution

Romanians who gain income from freelance activities will pay a 16.5% social security contribution, as any other employee, but only for sums that amount to five average gross salaries per year, namely 10,000 lei (EUR1=RON4.2234), Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu said Wednesday.

Romanian social insurance contributions will increase by 3.3 percentage points, similar with the level enforced in the first half of 2008, Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea said Thursday.