50% of the airport tax of €9 that is collected monthly for modernizing the airport will be transferred to the population support fund, as it is provided in a bill that was approved by the Government on April 17, IPN reports.
The sources of financing the population support fund will also include the portability tax, in the amount of 50% of the monthly payment for the operation, management and maintaining of the centralized databases for the implementation and ensuring of number portability, and the tax for the provision of mobile phone services, in the amount of 2.5% of the revenues earned from sales related to such services.
The fund will also include the transfers obtained from the additional mandatory payment of 0.1% of the sum paid by private individuals when buying foreign currency in cash and traveler’s checks in foreign currency for cash at currency exchange facilities and licensed banks.
According to the authorities, the changes are aimed at strengthening the sources of financing of the given fund so as to ensure increased social protection for socially underprivileged persons. The portability and airport taxes are projected to contribute about 120 million lei a year to the population support fund.
