The Liberal Party notified the Prosecutor's Office and the Constitutional Court about what they say are “budget and tax policy schemes”. According to them, a private company was illegally exempted from paying VAT and a law regulating the placement of drugstores was abrogated to save a Minister from prosecution, IPN reports.
PL leader Mihai Ghimpu told a press conference that last year the Parliament granted the construction company Glorinal tax exemptions of 12 million lei for works carried out a few years ago at the Curchi Monastery. “We thought it's for a noble cause, but something wrong appeared in the tax policy paper: the figure of 12 million was replaced with 25 million. Where did the 13 million come during a single year?”.
Liberal MP Valeriu Munteanu said that the initiative of exempting this company from taxes was advanced by a group of Liberal-Democrats in July 2013.
“Without any kind of argument, without the government and the anticorruption approvals or any papers, the figure was changed from 12 to 25. We found that in 2006 the Parliament adopted a similar law that exempted the company, alongside others, of VAT for works carried out at Curchi. We're curious where this VAT came from in 2013 and wonder if the company wasn't exempted for other works as well”, said Munteanu.
Fellow party member Gheorghe Brega told the press conference that an amendment to the budget and tax policy was proposed on 23 December 2013, abrogating the law on the placement of drugstores. “All the members of the commission on economy, finance and budget deny proposing such an amendment. They tried to abrogate the law so as to make criminal proceedings against Health Minister Andrei Usatai disappear, after he requested the Licensing Chamber to allow the opening of some drugstores through an exception to the law and in circumvention of the Parliament”, said Brega.
PL thinks that the money saved by companies thanks to VAT exemptions granted by the Parliament will be used to fund this year's election campaign for some parties.
