The chairman of the People’s Party of the Republic of Moldova (PPRM), ex-MP and ex-minister Alexandru Oleinic said the Moldovan business community faces problems related to productivity and competitiveness in the development process. They refer to fiscal administration, customs administration, the legislative framework and the access to financing for development projects, IPN reports.
In a communiqué published on the website of the PPRM, Alexandru Oleinic said the mentioned problems are highlighted in the World Bank study “Moldova: Policy priorities for private sector development”. Given the unstable business climate, the state budget revenues collected from entrepreneurial activity in 2006 totaled 418 million lei, in 2009 – 169 million lei, while in 2011 – 93 million lei.
Alexandru Oleinic said the problem of business regulation remains the main one in the relations between the state and the business community. Though the State Registration Chamber has implemented the ‘one-stop office’ approach starting with 2008, the company managers warn that the costs of the regulatory procedures continue to be high and there is not clarity as regards the conditions for obtaining authorizations as well as no transparency in carrying out inspections. After the General Conception of the Integrated Information Customs System ASYCUDA World was implemented in 2009, the problem of customs administration should have disappeared. But it didn’t.
According to Alexandru Oleinic, the problem of tax administration can be solved by working out a new fiscal policy conception that will envision a long-term taxation system, of at least five years, so as to give a positive impetus to the business community and to attract significant investments to Moldova’s economy. The constraints and barriers to businesses can be definitively removed by changing the development model of the national economy, by reforming the Government and the governmental institutions, by completely switching to the e-Governance platform. The state institutions must formulate policies by areas, and not to lobby according to political criteria.
