Fiscal Declarations for the household tax will be completed on the internet

The Government will not give up on the idea of the household tax on global income, but the tax consultants could be replaced by an IT application, says the Minister of Public Finance, Viorel Ștefan.

“It’s an extraordinary style and we came to the conclusion that what those tax consultants should do can now be solved by using already functional IT resources in different institutions of the state, in the central or the local administration, if we will be capable to integrate these resources in a computer application.

In the event that we will manage to integrate all the information that exists on different platforms, then we will have everything that could be in the fiscal declarations collected by consultants. I think this is a better, much modern, cost-effective solution.

The starting of this global income tax management system could be the object of a program for the next two or three years. There will be two or three phases of application, and for certain, the first phase will start on January 1st, 2018.

This will mean that in May 2019, all incomes will be globalized, without eliminating the system of retaining the sums at the source from the salary incomes”.

The Finance Minister announced that until mid-June, there will be a project for a new Fiscal Code, that will also refer to the new household tax system on global income.

Viorel Ștefan says that the current IT system of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) does not allow the rapid application of a new system, according to Iulian Olescu, Radio Romania Reporter.

Source: RRA. Translated by Miruna Matei.