{"id":5288,"date":"2025-06-03T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2025-06-03T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:00:38","slug":"liberal-leader-and-aspiring-pm-ilie-bolojan-says-tax-hikes-nearly-unavoidable-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5288","title":{"rendered":"Liberal leader and aspiring PM Ilie Bolojan says tax hikes nearly unavoidable in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ilie Bolojan<\/strong>, the interim leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) but also his party&#8217;s expected nominee for the prime minister seat, said that the Liberals are giving priority to cutting expenditures as a way to achieve fiscal consolidation, but hiking taxes is nearly unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will support a package of measures in which the reduction in state spending is significantly greater than the increase in their revenues, possibly through taxes and duties,&#8221; said Ilie Bolojan, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.b1tv.ro\/politica\/ilie-bolojan-pnl-vom-sustine-un-pachet-de-masuri-in-care-sa-primeze-reducerea-cheltuielilor-statului-acest-pachet-e-foarte-putin-probabil-sa-evite-cresterea-de-taxe-si-impozite-video-1590777.html?mc_cid=192ea067d3&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">B1tv.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This package is very unlikely to avoid increasing taxes and fees,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bolojan admitted that it would be better if the increase in revenues were done through better budget collections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is much better room for activity at the tax collection agency ANAF, at the anti-fraud department, and the fight against tax evasion should really become a priority, not just declaratively, but should be seen in higher collections. As long as we are doing quite poorly on the VAT [collection] side, it means that additional amounts of money can be collected,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Octav Ganea)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilie Bolojan, the interim leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) but also his party&#8217;s expected nominee for the prime minister seat, said that the Liberals are giving priority to cutting expenditures as a way to achieve fiscal consolidation, but hiking taxes is nearly unavoidable. &#8220;We will support a package of measures in which the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}