The State Tax Service in the second half of last year registered 10,562 leases and tenancy agreements. Tax inspectors carried out fiscal inspections at 447 private individuals who lease out real estate and calculated payments to the budget of over 486,000 lei, penalties of over 58,000 lei and fines of over 46,000 lei, IPN reports.

Last December, there were identified 407 private individuals-owners who lease out real estate and, following the measures taken by tax inspectors to make these comply with the fiscal rules, there were registered 992 tenancy contracts and leases and over 41,000 lei taxes were paid in the budget as a result.

As of January 3 this year, the tax on the transfer or leasing of real estate can be paid online through the governmental electronic payments service Mpay. The private individuals who lease out or transfer real estate are obliged to register the lease with the State Tax Service within three days of the signing and to pay a tax of 7% of the value of the contract.