The parents cannot be obliged to pay an extra tax at the kindergarten, except the food charge. There are no additional enrolment or maintenance taxes. But the parents can contribute voluntarily to the kindergarten’s budget, after a parents association is registered officially. In this case as well, nobody has the right to levy extra taxes, the head of the General Division of Youth and Sport Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb has told IPN.
Florica Rusu, head of the Division’s Preschool Management Section, said the kindergartens are maintained with money from the municipal budget and the parents pay only 30% of the monthly food charge for children, which is about 6 lei a day or over 100 lei a month. “Nobody can oblige the parent to pay a surcharge,” she stated.
She also said that the parents associations are founded in order to ensure the education process, not to collect money. But, in come of the cases, when the parents want better conditions for their children, they can contribute money. It is yet banned involving the personnel in collecting funds.
The National Anticorruption Center so far this year received 17 complaints about corruption and illegal taxes levied in kindergartens. According to the Center’s press officer Angela Starinschi, it was established that in each of these cases the money was collected by parents associations, without the involvement of the kindergarten’s staff.
This year the kindergartens will admit children born in 2010, who reached three. If there are vacancies, children born in 2011 will also be able to attend the kindergarten.
