Gas, electric and excise duties more expensive in 2013

At the beginning of 2013, electricity price will be 10 per cent higher, including the acceptance of higher costs of production by the national regulatory authority in the field of energy and additional aid granted to State renewable energy producers.

According to ANRE officials, to an average monthly invoice of 40 lei from a consumption of 100 KWh, the increase on January 1, will be 4 lei, according to Mediafax.

The excise duty paid for the production of alcohol and alcoholic beverages, tobacco, coffee and energy products will climb next year primarily due to the increase of the rate of exchange at which they are calculated.

The rate for calculating the excise tax in 2013, announced on 1 October by European Central Bank, is 4,5223 lei per euro, 5.2 per cent higher than used in this year's 4,3001 lei per euro.

The Government also approved the increase in excise duty on diesel from 1 January, from 374 euros/tonne from 391 EUR/tonne.

The price hike of petrol and diesel fuel could generate a wave of oil price on all products.

In July 2013, could take place also an increase in the total excise duty to cigarettes, from 79,19 euros to 81,78 euros per thousand cigarettes, according to the timetable laid down by the Government, which will lead to a new increase of prices.

Price increases and the gas

Also the price of gas for the population is scheduled to climb by 10 percent in 2013, 8 per cent from 1 July and by 2 per cent in October, according to the timetable for the abolition of tariffs regulated announced by ANRE.

First sales tax, the former Government only suspended until early next year, again became mandatory from 1 January, the Executive will, however, look into this situation.

This tax, introduced by the Government at the end of 2011, was charged with the first transcriptions of the right of property in Romania on a vehicle run and for which no tax has been paid.

As of January 1, 2013 will be introduced and the payment of VAT collection, which entails collecting the tax at the time of receipt the consideration of deliveries or services, but not later than 90 days from the date of issue of the invoice.

Taxpayers forced to apply this decision are those with an annual turnover below the ceiling of 2.25 million lei.

Local taxes could increase by 16%, but not in Bucharest

In terms of an increase in 2013 of charges and taxes local cumulative inflation for the period 2010-2012, the Government would have to be approved in the first session of the January Ordinance that will determine that mayors are the ones who decide on the application of indexation of local taxes and fees in relation to the evolution of the inflation in the last three years.

At the end of last year, the Government has decided that the level of the fees referred to in the local grid increases for next year with 16,05% as a result of indexing with the inflation rate over the past three years, according to the law, stating that the amount taken, local authorities may decide an increase or a decrease in a margin of 20%.

Fees and taxes in 2013 remain at the level of this year, and electric cars and hybrid retain an exemption from tax for motor vehicle of 95 percent, according to a decision adopted Wednesday by the General Counsel.

According to the decision, there is a category of vehicle for which you require higher taxes, namely vehicles registered with cylinder capacity of between 3000 and 5000 CC, for which the tax will be 3 lei/200 cc.

For vehicles registered with the cubic capacity of 5000 CC charge will be 5 lei/200 cc, and for those without cylinder capacity highlighted, the tax will be $ 100 per year.

According to the tax code, income taxes and local taxes are indexed once every three years, taking into account the evolution of the rate of inflation since the last amendment.

Last updated fees and local taxes has been applied from 2010.

Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura