A number of farmers organizations submitted a statement to Parliament and the Government, by which they ask introducing the common tax in agriculture. According to the signatories, this thing will significantly contribute to reducing tax evasion and to diminishing the illegal agricultural activities, IPN reports.

The signatories insist that the common tax this year should be introduced on a trial basis in at least three districts of the country. They propose that the general common tax should be at most 3 lei per hectare, while for peasant farmsteads that cultivate less than 10 hectares – at most 1.85 lei per hectare.

The organizations consider that a part of the problems concerning the tax policy in agriculture can be solved by introducing this tax, which will include the income tax, land tax, road taxes, payments for natural resources and water and the development tax. All the owners of farmland will pay this tax.

The farmers believe that when this tax is introduced, the revenues of the budgets of the territorial-administrative units of the first level will double, the number of tax inspections at agricultural enterprises will decrease and the uncultivated areas will diminish in size.

The statement was signed by the National Union of Agricultural Producers Associations “UniAgroProtect”, the National Farmers Federation of Moldova “AGROinform”, the Fruit Producers and Exporters Association “Moldova-Fruct”, and the Association of Grain Exporters and Importers “Agrocer”.