According to Moldovan legislation, all election costs are borne by the state. The Central Electoral Commission estimates that about 2 million lei was used from the state budget for voting by mail during the 2024 presidential election. The data can be seen on the agency’s website.
The abolition of excise duty and implementation of VAT on car imports may be delayed for another year or more.
For small producers of beer, wine, fermented beverages other than beer and wine, as well as small ethyl alcohol production enterprises, the excise duty rate will decrease from the moment of Moldova’s accession to the EU. The benefit implies almost a double reduction (by 45%) compared to the standard rate that large and medium-sized producers will pay.
Ukraine’s reconstruction after the war needs a broad dialog at the international level. In Moldova, it should focus on how our country can economically contribute to the process. And how Moldovan business can find its place and role in the reconstruction. The participants in the Moldova-Benelux Economic Forum (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), which took place in Chisinau on March 11-12, talked about these issues.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the budget deficit jumped again in January 2025. Last year it was reduced, including by cutting expenditures. But in the first months of this year, the revenue and expenditure parts of the budget again went in different directions.
The Organization for Development of Entrepreneurship (ODA) has signed contracts with Fincombank, OTR-bank COMERŢBANK, EuroCreditBank and EXIMBANK under the FACEM fund program “BGK investments for energy efficiency and climate change adaptation”. Vadim Codreanu, head of the organization, told Logos Press.
The revenues of audit companies in Moldova in 2023 amounted to 286,304 million lei. This is by 14.8% or 36,908 thousand lei more as compared to 2022. Among other things, there was an increase in revenue from the realization of audit of financial statements, which increased by 9% (9,097 million lei). The market representatives explain this growth by the efforts and growth of audit companies, as well as by the growth of reporting. Plus the adjustment for inflation.
In February 2025, 730 tax audits were conducted by the method of operational control, the press service of the State Tax Service reports. In 514 cases, violations of legislation were established, resulting in sanctions against violators.
The US Senate has received a legislative initiative to consider VAT as an additional tariff. According to tax analysts, this idea, if implemented, could have consequences for companies from countries where VAT accounts for a serious share of the tax burden.
