News about State budget and taxes

According to the authorities, there are about 3,400 prisoners in Moldova who are able to work, of whom only 1,200 were working in 2025. Another 2,000 would like to be employed, but there are regulatory restrictions. In some countries, such as the Netherlands or Germany, the employment rate of prisoners reaches 80%.

There is a split in the Romanian government. The deputy prime minister, the secretary general of the government and six ministers from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which was the largest in the coalition, resigned today.

The expenses for repairing the damage to the Isaccea-Vulcanesti power line, located on the territory of Ukraine and belonging to Moldova, will not exceed 700-800 thousand lei, of which the cost of equipment is estimated at 500 thousand lei, according to the preliminary calculations of the Ukrainian side.

Numerous violations of financial discipline in the accounting of state assets of the Ministry of Defense were revealed in the course of an external audit. Understatement of value, misstatement of costs, and other reporting shortcomings prevented the Accounts Chamber from issuing a final opinion without reservations about the legality of the ministry’s use of state appropriations in 2025.

In seven years, more than 300 thousand residential properties have been registered for the first time, almost 6 million have been assessed and reassessed, state property has been determined in more than 360 settlements, and the cadastral archive of 70 million pages has been fully digitized.

As of April 1, 2026, payments under the state program “Prima Casă” have been suspended. Finance Minister Adrian Havrilice openly stated that the program in its current form is not the best solution. He explained this by the pressure that the program exerts on the real estate market and on the state budget, from which about 150 million lei is allocated annually to support the beneficiaries.

The obligation to implement the reform of the wage system in the public sector from September 1, 2026 is maintained. In order to increase salaries, it is envisaged to implement tax measures aimed at expanding the tax base. This is stated in the response of the Ministry of Finance to the parliamentary inquiry of Angela Cutasevici, a member of the faction of the “Alternativa” bloc.

The Ministry of Finance has announced its intention to amend Law No. 34/2024 on cash payments and invites professionals and stakeholders to engage in the process by submitting comments by May 13 this year.

Italy has joined France on the list of EU nations whose public debt has exceeded 3 trillion euros.

The Accounting Chamber will independently form and approve its budget – the government has approved a draft that strengthens the financial independence of the institution.

Citizens are exempt from paying contributions to technical standards for the construction of dwellings. They were paid by individuals when erecting individual dwellings.

In the period of April 14-20, 2026, the Customs Service’s revenues to the state budget amounted to more than 718.1 million lei, which is 102.6 per cent higher than the benchmark for the reporting period. Since the beginning of the current year, the Customs Service has collected about 11.8 billion lei to the state budget, which is 102.8% more than the benchmark.

The Agricultural Interventions and Payments Agency (AIPA) last week authorized the disbursement of Lei 31.19 million from the National Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development as advance payments for investment projects.

As of May 1 this year, the reduced VAT rate of 8% currently in effect for medical devices will be canceled. The legislators decided to return to the basic 20% rate for them, as the privilege introduced last year did not work.

In the first quarter of 2026, payroll tax liabilities increased by 10.19% compared to the same period of 2025. In total, the amount of payroll taxes amounted to 12 billion lei.

More than 46 million lei will be invested in the new office and smart video surveillance systems at the state border.

The process of voluntary merger of mayoralties cannot be completed by December. The experience of already completed mergers has shown that the whole procedure takes more than a year. This is the opinion of Făleşti mayor Aliaksandr Severin.

UPDATED. In 2026, it is planned to spend about 600 thousand lei for the evaluation of school textbooks – this is about 56.3 thousand lei more than in 2025, when the expenses amounted to 543.7 thousand lei.

According to the data of the Ministry of Finance, during the first five days of subscription (April 13-17, 2026), about 59 million lei were invested on the eVMS.md platform during the April round. More than fifty individuals carried out 635 transactions, reaching a record level of interest in investment instruments since the beginning of the year.

Moldova plans to increase defense spending to 1% of GDP by 2030. They are now about 0.58% to 0.65% of gross domestic product, up from 0.3% in 2020.