The National NGO Council considers the MPs should return to the legislative initiative that allows private individuals to direct up to 2% of the income tax they pay to support religious organizations and nongovernmental organizations of public utility, but should adopt it in the form accepted by civil society, the Coucnil’s secreatry general Antonita Fonari has told IPN.
Antonita Fonari said the initial variant of the bill provided that the public utility mechanism should be strengthened so that all the institutions that will benefit from these 2% are of public utility. But under the passed bill, only the NGOs must have a public utility certificate, not yet the religious organizations. Work on the concepiton lasted for almost five years. But last December Parliament passed it in a form that wasn’t discussed with civil society and the Government.
The modification of the Tax Code by introducing the ‘2%’ was initiated by Lib-Dems Valeriu Ghiletski and Veaceslav Ionita. Following a challenge submitted by the Liberal Party, the Constitutional Court ruled that the supreme law was broken. The authors of the challenge said the fiscal-budgetary policy was amended without the appraisal of the Government and the financial resources needed to compensate the local public administration for the losses that will be sustained after a part of the private individuals’ income tax is redirected weren’t identified.
