Some 95% of the traders who earlier worked based on the entrepreneur’s patent switched over to independent activity and complied with all the legal requirements, said Minister of Economic Development and Digitization Dumitru Alaiba. According to him, the patent reform is beneficial as the people realize the necessity of working transparently and legally. Minister Alaiba noted that he makes purchases at the market and receives a receipt, IPN reports.
According to official data, after the law took effect, over 3,500 of the more than 4,200 traders working based on patent started to practice independent activity, founded Ltds or individual enterprises. The minister said that only the current Government had the courage to implement this less popular, but very necessary reform.
“The patent reform was one of the most visible of our reforms. The governments for 25 years had put off this reform, this difficult decision and this inconvenient, but necessary conversation with the people. By now, 95% switched over to individual activity. But we didn’t expect that everyone will immediately issue sales slips. We realize this as it goes to the rooting out of a habit that lasted for 25 years,” Dumitru Alaiba stated in the program “Shadow Cabinet” on JurnalTV channel.
In accordance with the law, after July 1, all the patentees had to transit to independent activity and to issue receipts. The costs incurred to purchase the cash register and to equip the commercial space are covered by the state. The allocated compensatory payments came to 23 million lei.
“They now all work according to a civilized, transparent regime. I don’t like treating everyone as offenders or ill-intentioned persons. There are persons who comply and we bank on them. The mission of the State Tax Service is important, meticulous as it must help each entrepreneur to make this changes. In time, we will see results and full compliance. There are persons who complied. I go to the market and receive sales slip or probably because they know me. The state must bank on those entrepreneurs who want to work legally, transparently, by obeying all the regulations,” said the minister.
Two days ago, the MPs of the Party of Socialists requested the Constitutional Court to pronounce on the legality of the authorities’ decision to prohibit work based on patent, arguing they consider this reform is antisocial and the exclusion of the parent deprives the people of the right to work.
