The farmers are dissatisfied with the budgetary-fiscal policy approved by the Government, especially because the agriculture subsidization fund wasn’t raised as the farmers asked. At the beginning of next week, farmers associations will make effort to convince Parliament that the budgetary-fiscal policy should not be adopted in the variant proposed by the Government. Otherwise, they will have to resort to protests.
Alexandru Slusari, chairman of the Union of Agricultural Producers Associations “UniAgroProtect”, has told IPN that, in principle, the farmers are not against increasing the VAT on particular agricultural products from 8% to 20%, but the fact that the agriculture subsidization fund remained 610 million lei, when the farmers asked that it should be 1.2 billion lei, is serious.
The Government approved the draft budgetary-fiscal policy on April 3. Under it, the reduced VAT of 8% will be kept only in respect of growers and importers of living animals intended for reproduction and of fruit, vegetables and grains.
