News about State budget and taxes

Beginning May 8, tax liabilities associated with lease agreements are automatically generated.

Moldexpo exhibition center summed up the results of the auction for leasing six land plots. According to the company’s management, annual revenues from the new contracts will amount to 6.8 million lei.

The Moldovan authorities plan to amend the Labor Code to include a new legal concept – “employee with family responsibilities”.

A part of the profit of the state enterprise “MoldATSA” is supposed to be left at its disposal for modernization of the infrastructure of air navigation systems.

The future Tax Council, to be established under the amendments to the Law on Public Finance and Fiscal Responsibility, will be “an institution affiliated with the Parliament, but independent”. This statement was made by the chairman of the Commission on Economy, Budget and Finance, Radu Marian.

In the period of May 4-10, 2026, the Customs Service’s revenues to the state budget amounted to 1.0 billion lei, which constitutes the fulfillment of the benchmark of 107.1% for the reporting period.

The Finance Ministry is preparing a draft government decision on the allocation of 1,805,626 lei to compensate the persons subjected to political repressions or their heirs.

Romanian President Nicusor Dan made a video message on the occasion of Europe Day and Romania’s Independence Day, in which he spoke about what his country has achieved during almost 20 years in the EU (Romania officially joined the Community on January 1, 2007).

Most of the issues related to the voluntary merger of mayoralties and more broadly to local government reform concern the Ministry of Finance, as the central problem remains the system of financial resource allocation.

Due to the non-execution of decisions on special and extended confiscation, the state budget lost about 550.5 million lei.

Germany is preparing one of the toughest overhauls of its health insurance system in years, and it’s already causing alarm among pharmaceutical companies and investors.

More than 50 million lei is planned to be allocated to partially compensate farmers for losses caused by the extreme drought in the summer of 2025. The relevant draft government decision is scheduled to be considered and adopted at a meeting on Wednesday, May 13.

In the first 4 months of 2026, revenues from the tax on income of individuals renting out real estate increased by 28.2% compared to the same period of 2025, amounting to 38 million lei.

A bill providing for monthly financial support for “children of war” has been registered in Parliament.

Russia’s federal budget deficit in January-April 2026 amounted to 5.877 trillion rubles (about 60.3 billion euros). This figure was twice as high as in the same period last year and was more than a third higher than the plan for the whole of 2026.

Next week it is planned to present a new concept of the Law on the unified system of labor remuneration in the public sector. The document will become the basis for a new architecture of labor remuneration in the public sector.

The law on the creation of the Convergence Fund was published and entered into force on May 7. Thus, the process of gradual abolition of tax exemptions that have been in effect so far for Transnistrian enterprises was launched.

As of the beginning of 2026, servicing Moldova’s domestic public debt costs the budget significantly more than servicing external debt, often amounting to almost double the difference in expenditures.

Moldova is becoming increasingly dependent on external financing. At the same time, reform-driven financial instruments are increasingly being replaced by “politicized financing”, with economic criteria taking a back seat. This can be considered the beginning of a dangerous slide for the country.

On May 6, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova organized, on the platform of the Sectoral Entrepreneurship Committee, a public-private dialogue on the regulation of sugar production and import and the search for balanced solutions for the entire value chain in this sector.