News about State budget and taxes

Giorgi Meloni’s government is changing course on the issue of military spending: of the 14.9 billion euros that Italy has booked under the European SAFE program, Rome will request only a fraction.

The Romanian Ministry of Finance will allocate 100 million euros for a program for Romanians living abroad who want to start a business in the country. The program is called “Diaspora Investește Acasă” (“Diaspora Investește Acasă”). The program provides loans up to 500,000 euros, with a grant component of up to 60% of the investment loan, but not more than 200,000 euros.

On 28 May, the Ukrainian parliament ratified a 90bn-euro loan agreement to support Ukraine with the European Union. A total of 298 MPs voted in favor of the document.

Administrative reform and its necessity have been discussed in Moldova for many decades. The problem of empty villages, incapable of development and dependent on central budget transfers, did not arise yesterday.

The education sector has become the scene of a fierce political confrontation between local and central authorities. Chisinau Mayor General Ion Ceban accuses the leadership of the country’s intention to deprive the capital of 330 million lei in just one year. In response, Education Minister Dan Perciun says the reform is vital to the system and reproaches the Chisinau mayor’s office for leaving more than a billion lei unspent over the past six years. The conflict continued in parliament.

Details of the reform of the education system have emerged. It involves the transfer of education departments and, consequently, schools from local authorities to the direct subordination of the Ministry of Education and Research. In this context, the government proposes to reduce the share of personal income tax that remains in the budgets of Chisinau and Balti municipalities from 50% to 45% of the amount collected.

The government approved the signing of a 218-million-euro loan agreement between Moldova and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) for the implementation of a program of operations on sustainable growth policies.

If by the end of 2025 the share of oil revenues in the state budget of Azerbaijan amounted to 48%, by 2030 this dependence will be reduced to 30%.

Amendments to the Act on the Procedure for Day Laborers Performing Casual Unskilled Work, which provides for the digitization of the Register of Day Laborers, have been published and are effective as of June 1 of this year.

Small discrepancies with the plan – excess in revenues and shortfall in expenditures – led to a 13.7% reduction in the planned state budget deficit. The report on its implementation in 2025 was approved at today’s cabinet meeting.

An external audit revealed that more than half of the citizens obliged to self-insure do not purchase a medical policy. At the end of last year, 133 thousand people paid the insurance contribution under the compulsory health insurance (CHI) program in the prescribed amount, totaling 363.5 million lei, while more than 142 thousand people did not contribute to the CHI system. The losses incurred by the medical funds are estimated by the Court of Accounts at about 187 million lei.

Electronic accounting, monitoring and control of subsoil resources carried out at all stages of work, from exploration and production to transportation, processing, storage and sales, will be ensured by a digital system of traceability of minerals.

The external public audit of the Accounting Chamber revealed a number of serious systemic violations that can directly affect the social rights of citizens. Execution of the state social insurance budget faces a number of systemic problems that depend on the state of the economy as a whole – bankruptcy of enterprises, debts, poor financial discipline and many other things that affect the sustainability of state guarantees in the social sphere.

According to the operational data of the State Tax Service (STS), the state budget revenues administered by the agency, from May 18 to May 22, 2026, amounted to about 1.8 billion lei

Trade unions have proposed to pay a one-time allowance of 200,000 lei to graduates of special higher education institutions who get jobs in the structures of national defense, security and public order. The initiative concerns both servicemen and civil servants with special status.

From the fall, salaries of public sector employees will be paid on the basis of the amended legal framework in the context of the promoted reform of the legislation on remuneration of labor. This was announced by State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance Maya Savva at a meeting of the National Commission for Consultation and Collective Bargaining.

During the last working week, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) authorized for payment to farmers subsidies amounting to LE 53.46 million from the National Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development.

The proceeds to the state budget of the Republic of Moldova from the activity of the Customs Service for the period of May 18-24, 2026, amounted to more than 871.7 million lei.

Beginning May 25, 2026, farmers who lost their corn and sunflower crops from the severe drought of 2025 can file claims for compensation with area offices of the Agricultural Intervention and Payment Agency (AIPA).

Chisinau’s budget for the current year will be ready for publication on Wednesday and will be put up for discussion, according to the law.