PM forbids the Tax Service from using the tax inspectors as guardians

PM Vasile Tarlev has forbidden the State Tax Inspectorate (IFPS) from making ‘guardians’ out of the tax inspectors. He is displeased with the recent decision of the IFPS to institute tax offices at drugstores and wholesale warehouses, and is concerned that they could reach restaurants and hotels. According to him, inspections by IFPS have to be carried out in order to control its own activity, but not that of the commercial entities. “Do not bureaucratise it and stop bothering the economic agents. If we do bother them, then we have to do it with concrete facts”, the Premier requested. IFPS head Sergiu Puscuta has stated recently that after setting up tax offices at 150 wholesale warehouses and commercial spaces, their sales have practically doubled. He suggested that the measure excluded any possibility of fictive transactions, which aimed at reducing liabilities owed to the state budget. An eventual decrease in sales will be a reason for reinstalling these fiscal offices, he added. Next, IFPS planned to cooperate with the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCECC) in order to follow up on all wholesale warehouses and to check their licenses, authorisations and other relevant documents.