tax evasion

Romanian PM Calls On Prefects To Intensify Fight Against Tax Evasion, Illegal Work

15:06, 07 Aug. 2011
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Sunday called on county prefects and work inspection chiefs to intensify the fight against tax evasion and illegal work.

Illegal Spirits Sales In Romania Reached About EUR750M In 2010

16:10, 17 Mai 2011
Illegal spirits sales in Romania stood at between EUR700 million and EUR750 million last year, or 60% of the overall spirits market, according to the Garant association comprising most of the players on the spirits market.

Romanian President Calls For Sustained Fight Against Tax Evasion

12:29, 07 Mart. 2011
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Monday at the Public Ministry’s activity report meeting the fight against tax evasion and evaders must be stepped up and sustained, adding any asset stolen from the state is a threat to social security.

Romanian President Says Employers Make National Sport Out Of Dodging Laws

12:59, 11 Nov. 2010
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday dodging the law has become a national sport for the Romanian business environment, adding employers have a responsibility toward the state and must pay taxes and not encourage illegal labor.

Romanian Fmr Presidential Candidate Detained For Tax Evasion

09:43, 09 Nov. 2010
Constantin Ninel Potarca, former presidential candidate from the Roma party in Romania, was arrested for 24 hours Monday night on charges of tax evasion, following a police raid in his neighborhood in Targu Jiu, southwestern Romania.

Romanian Govt To Give Consumers Partial Refund In Exchange For Receipts

14:03, 24 Iul. 2010
Buyers of goods and services will receive a partial refund from the state, in exchange for their receipts, and will also enjoy tax deductions for home improvement work, up to a yearly ceiling yet to be decided by the Romanian Government.

Romanian Govt Adopts Application Norms To Decree Fighting Tax Evasion

13:01, 23 Iul. 2010
Romania’s Government adopted Friday application norms to its recent decree fighting tax evasion.

Romanian PM Threatens To Sack Fin Min Unless Tax Evasion Is Countered

16:28, 15 Iul. 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Thursday he explicitly required the finance minister and the head of the country’s fiscal authority ANAF to be efficiently involved in fighting tax evasion and threaten to sack both unless he sees results.

Romania’s Defense Council Calls For Action Plan Against Financial Crimes

22:54, 28 Iun. 2010
Romania’s Supreme Defense Council decided in its meeting Monday that all bodies in charge with fighting tax evasion and smuggling will draft a joint plan of action in order to crack down on financial crimes, the Romanian Presidency said in a press release Monday.

Romania’s Tax Evasion Decree Published In Official Journal, Enters Force

11:05, 24 Iun. 2010
Romania’s emergency decree aiming to fight tax evasion, which drops plans to apply VAT on intra-EU trade and reintroduce excises on luxury items, has entered force after it was approved by the Government and was published in the Official Journal.

Romania Scraps Proposed Anti-Tax Evasion Measures Under EU Infringement Threat

09:14, 24 Iun. 2010
Romania’s Government has scrapped plans to apply VAT on intra-EU trade and reintroduce excises on luxury items after the European Commission warned the measures breach EU rules and threatened infringement.

Romania To Stop EC Infringement Procedures Over Tax Evasion Law Before Penalties – Fin Min

14:17, 08 Iun. 2010
Romania’s recently adopted ordinance against tax evasion has determined the European Commission to start infringement procedures, which local authorities will try to stop before any penalties are enforced, Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu said Tuesday.

Romanian Govt Adopts Ordinance Against Tax Evasion

11:34, 31 Mai 2010
Romania’s Government will introduce new measures aiming to fight tax evasion, through an emergency ordinance adopted Sunday, Prime Minister Emil Boc announced.

Individuals Crossing Romanian Border Without Declaring EUR10,000 To Face Prison – Draft

20:40, 19 Mai 2010
Individuals crossing the Romanian border without declaring amounts equal to or greater than EUR10,000 will be charged with a crime and imprisoned for two to seven years, according to the draft Government Emergency Ordinance aiming to fight tax evasion.

Romania Mulls Reintroducing Excises On Luxury Products, Risks EC Sanctions

18:37, 19 Mai 2010
Romania’s Government plans to reintroduce excises on yachts, perfumes, hunting weapons, jewelry and other luxury products starting 2010, and the country risks to be sanctioned by the European Commission, as it breaches certain European norms.

Romanian PM Urges Ministers To Sack Institution Heads Not Fighting Tax Evasion

15:40, 15 Mai 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Saturday called on ministers involved in drafting new legislation to fight tax evasion to have the draft finished by Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting and immediately sack the heads of any subordinated institutions who don’t act to fight tax evasion.

Romanian Financial Guard Estimates Tax Evasion In Cigarette Sales At EUR1B

14:38, 25 Mart. 2010
Tax evasion in the sale of tobacco products in Romania is estimated at EUR1 billion, mainly because of cigarettes smuggled from Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova and sales in duty-free shops, said Thursday Ladanyi Arpad Csaba, head of Romania’s Financial Guard.

Romanian Minister: Tax Evasion Widespread In Tourism Sector

16:04, 06 Feb. 2010
Romania’s Regional Development and Tourism Minister Elena Udrea on Saturday said tax evasion is widespread in the country’s tourism sector, especially in the agritourism and food businesses.

Romania’s PM Calls For Laws To Stop “Ghost” Firms, Share Transfer To Indebted Firms

13:11, 05 Feb. 2010
Romania’s Government said it will sanction people who transfer shares to firms that have debts to deceased people, people with disabilities or foreign citizens outside the EU.

Almost All Romanian Tourism Units Evade Taxes – Tourism Min

17:39, 28 Aug. 2009
Romanian tourism minister Elena Udrea said Friday at seaside resort Mamaia that "everyone, or almost everyone in tourism", is performing tax evasion, a situation seen no only at “bed & breakfasts” but also at large hotels, where the exact number of tourists accommodated is never declared.

Romanian Govt Urges More Fiscal Checkups To Crack Down On Tax Evasion

13:49, 18 Iul. 2008
The Romanian government decided to intensify checkups at companies via the country’s fiscal agency ANAF, in a move to fight tax evasion.

Romanian Econ Fin Min Asks Financial Guard To Focus On Big Game

19:06, 14 Feb. 2008
Romanian economy and finance minister Varujan Vosganian asked the financial guard to redirect control activities towards large tax evasion, especially regarding VAT and excises, and to correctly state the risk zones in the area.

French Court Clears Tax Evader Sever Muresan From Tax Payments

12:27, 01 Feb. 2008
The Court of Appeals in Lyon, France, cleared Romanian-French citizen Sever Muresan from paying taxes for the years 1994 and 1995 to the French state, repealing the decision of the Dijon Court, and ruled that Muresan is to receive EUR4,000.