The former minister’s statements to Mediafax come in the context in which financial analysts have stated that the state budget could be supplemented if a special tax were introduced on advertising revenues of large digital platforms.
„Today, we have a profit tax in Romania of 16%. There is a European directive that says that in the countries where the activity is carried out, companies with a turnover of over 750 million euros can be taxed at up to 15%. Here, in Romania, there is a certain contradiction. We have 16%; this means that we have to make a derogation, so to amend the tax code and provide for such a possibility of variation of the profit tax or a progressive tax, an approach of this kind”, declares Teodorovici.
He emphasizes, however, that in terms of measures to reduce the budget deficit, politicians „are only focused on cutting and not on identifying solutions”.
„We must grant them (large compani...