News about Taxation

A group of offenders was operating in Chisinau. They used individuals close to the leadership to evade paying taxes to the state. The scheme was uncovered by the State Tax Service and the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS).

The 2027 draft budget and tax policy, proposed by the Ministry of Finance for public consultation, calls for reducing the income tax rate on salaries not exceeding 1 million lei from 12% to 7%. For salaries exceeding this amount, the rate would increase to 15%.

Starting July 1 of this year, new European Union regulations will take effect requiring the payment of a customs duty of €3 per item for shipments originating from non-EU countries.

In Eastern Europe, an annual income of 100 thousand euros leaves more “on hand” than in Western and Northern Europe. The calculations are complicated, these are only experts’ estimates, because the tax systems themselves differ: in some countries they are relatively simple, in others much more complex. But the conclusion is unambiguous. Bulgaria tops the ranking.

The government backs the parliamentary initiative on the re-introduction of the minimum rates of the real estate tax, as well as the transfer of the right to local public administration bodies to establish exemptions or exemptions on the payment of real estate tax for certain categories of citizens.

The State Property Agency, the founder of the port, the State Enterprise “River Port Ungheni” (Portul Fluvial Ungheni), is drafting a government decision to exempt the enterprise from paying contributions to the state budget from the net profit earned in 2025.

Moldovan taxpayers set a new record – in one day they contributed 1.5 billion lei to the budget. This happened on March 25.

The VAT rate applicable to the HoReCa sector during the state of emergency declared by Parliament on Tuesday will not change.

A group of deputies proposes to amend the provisions of the Tax Code relating to the registration of enterprises as VAT payers. Provided that their proposals are adopted by Parliament, the procedure for revoking this status will be simplified.

Until April 30, 2026 individuals-citizens must file income tax returns for 2025. The State Tax Service reminds about this, emphasizing that it refers to individuals who do not carry out entrepreneurial activities.

Revenues to the national public budget (NPB), administered by the State Tax Service, increased by 13.2% in the first two months of 2026. At the same time, the growth is quite uneven for individual components of the NBP. If it amounted to almost 20% in local budgets, the social insurance funds received half as much money.

With equal income, a standard employed person pays 4 times more health insurance premiums than a freelancer. At the same time, both use health services to the same extent, which does not meet the principles of fairness and neutrality of taxation.

The personal social insurance accounts of former employees of dormant companies will be updated with data on the contributions they paid to the state budget. They will be entered on the basis of tax documents and declarations related to this period, Logos Press reports.

As of early 2026, marginal personal income tax rates in EU countries range from 10% in Bulgaria and Romania to 60.5% in Denmark, according to Logos Press.

In the Netherlands, authorities are preparing to pass a law that will require tax residents of the country to pay an annual tax of about 36% on the actual income from savings and investments in cryptocurrencies, even if the assets are not sold, according to Logos Press.