Employers who will help employees buy computers may be offered tax concessions

The companies that will encourage the employees to purchase computers might be granted tax concessions, said Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology Dorin Recean. The employers may provide a part of the money needed to purchase a notebook or other types of computers that can be used for work and at home, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The American Chamber of Commerce in Moldova proposed a Home Computing Initiative. The difference in the prices of a desktop computer and a laptop becomes less significant. I think there will be many companies, including SMEs, that will support this initiative,” Dorin Recean said. He also said that this year the budget is austere and they cannot submit the proposal to grant tax concessions to the companies that stimulate the employees to buy computers, but such an initiative will be proposed next year. Effort is made to increase the number of public Internet access points. Twenty such points were recently opened at post offices with the support of the International Telecommunication Union. There are 117 public Internet access points at present. Another 450 offices of Moldova's Post Office will be connected to the Internet next year. Moldova's Post Office manages 1,145 offices. Many of them must be repaired and outfitted before public Internet access points could be opened there. “We plan that the works will be completed by the end of 2012,” Dorin Recean said.