At the same time, the upper limit for the voluntary registration of the companies as VAT payers was reduced from 100 thousand to 50 thousand leis. This is stipulated by the amendments to the Tax Code, approved by the Parliament on the initiative of the deputy – Valeriu Guma in order to improve the tax administration, business climate, to create more employment opportunities and to attract the investment. The amendments were filed by popular demands of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Law stipulates the taxpayers will be registered on a voluntary basis as VAT payers if, over the period of 12 months, they make deliveries of goods and services for the amount exceeding 50 thousand leis, excluding the VAT-exempted deliveries. In case of exceeding the amount of deliveries over 600 thousand leis they are bound to register as VAT payers. According to Valeriu Guma, the approval of amendments is necessary because of impossibility of non-VAT payer SMEs to sell their goods to VAT taxpayers because the latter won’t receive the VAT and therefore don’t want to develop the economic relations with them.
At the same time, the SMEs, delivering the goods and services to the population, don’t want to register as VAT payers. Moreover, they evade issuing of sales receipts in order to not exceed the upper limit of turnover, stipulated by the law, keeping the double-entry. According to Veaceslav Ionita, Parliamentary Commission on Economic, Budget and Finance Chairman, both the state and the economic agents will benefit from the approved amendments.
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