The debtors’ blacklist

The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) has published a list with all the people in Romania who havent paid their dues.

Roxana Vasile, 16.05.2016, 13:29

The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) decided to publish a list with all the natural persons in Romania with outstanding debts above 330 euros. The list contains some 200,000 people, and is aimed at increasing the tax collection rate. Most Romanians are very careful about paying their dues to the state, Dragos Doros, the head of ANAF told us. Since the beginning of the year, the Agency has collected by 162 million euros more than last year, even if taxes have gone down.

Dragos Doros: “Taxes are one of the few certain things in life. Most taxpayers are honest people, and for this reason it’s important that ANAF should offer helpful advice and support all those who pay their taxes. For those who don’t want this kind of dialogue, we have our special departments, and in the shortest time possible we intend to eliminate the latter from the market to the benefit of the former”.

So far, ANAF has published three lists with companies and institutions with state debts. Large and medium-sized debtors have so far incurred debts worth 6,4 billion lei, with small debtors owing 77 billion lei, of which 81% is seen as irrecoverable. The third list contains only natural persons. At the same time, the Agency wants to simplify payment procedures for taxes and charges and to introduce new forms that are easier to fill in.

Dragos Doros: “At this time of the year ANAF is focusing on streamlining its practices, which have so far been one of our weaknesses. We have many actions in this respect, so that our agencies in Brasov and Constanta, for instance, should provide the same answers to taxpayers inquiring about similar issues. In this respect we are planning to publish a guide for small taxpayers in order to simplify and explain what they need to do, to make it all clear and simple. We are trying to upload some guides that should address the big issues, so that a large number of taxpayers should find the answers they need in the shortest time possible. And of course, we are trying to simply forms”.

Last but not least, with a view to combating tax evasion, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration wants all cash registers to be connected to a server and to monitor all invoices in real time.

(Translated by Vlad Palcu)