The Government of Moldova is facing a series of pressing problems. The country’s treasury is empty and should be filled and this is the most serious problem, considers political analyst Igor Botan. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, this said that the budgetary-fiscal policy and the budget parameters must be incorporated in official documents so that when the IMF mission comes, it has a clear picture of what the current Government wants, IPN reports.
“We must take into account the local business factor and the citizen factor too and the Government here faces very big problems. On the one hand, to fill the treasury it must exert greater fiscal pressure, but this is already impossible. That’s why it must encourage businesses somehow,” stated the analyst.
Igor Botan said that now the Government focuses on several important factors – there are no resources in the business sector and thus it must reduce the number of inspections and leave the businesses to breathe freely. “On the other hand, the Government is forced to do unpopular things like to put taxes on movable and immovable assets, to somehow redistribute the money that comes from the road fund to the local budgets and to do particular things that seem very logical to me. Also, the Government allows the farmers to import diesel fuel for farming works, but simultaneously increases the tax on farmland,” stated the executive director of the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT).
Igor Botan considers the Government will change its tactics when parliamentary elections will be near. “The current Bovernment and its acts cannot be described in politological, social and other kinds of terms. It is a Government that is under the pressure of circumstances,” he stated.
The analyst also said that what the Government does now is appropriate and the people must understand that the local budgets have no other resources than those coming from the taxing of movable and immovable assets.
