Businessmen call the State to improve competition rules

Moldovan businessmen urge the State to create equal conditions for competition to all the economic entities in Moldova. Companies engaged in the real sector of the economy are affected not by the taxes they have to pay, because no economy is possible without taxes, but by the competitors operating in the underground economy who do not pay taxes, said director general of “Franzeluta”, Eugen Baleca at the Business Forum “The State and the Business Environment” on Thursday, April 26. In his words, a fair competition in Moldova is still to be created. Even though those three initiatives on economy liberalisation tabled by the head of state, nearly eliminated all the impediments to the development of production enterprises for the next few years, the state should still make efforts in order to ensure equal conditions to all the entrepreneurs, says the manager of the largest producer of baked goods in Moldova. Baleca mentioned that nowadays the greatest burden for the legal producers is the illegal work in enterprises of the underground economy. According to him, the share of taxes which should have come from this sector is significant and the budgetary cost of this phenomenon (underground economy) reach about MDL 1 bln. Eugen Baleca considers that if Moldova will succeed in legalising the labour, the wages and the labour conditions for those who operate in the real sector of the economy will grow qualitatively. Moreover, labour conditions of all the employees of the Moldovan economy will improve and the exodus of Moldovan citizens abroad will be stopped. Forum “The State and the Business Environment” has been organised by the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, National Producers Association, Foreign Investors Association, Business Associations Alliance for Entrepreneurship Development.