{"id":123749,"date":"2016-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/senate-adopted-the-bill-for-introducing-a-specific-tax-in-the-tourism-and-public-catering-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:09:20","slug":"senate-adopted-the-bill-for-introducing-a-specific-tax-in-the-tourism-and-public-catering-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/senate-adopted-the-bill-for-introducing-a-specific-tax-in-the-tourism-and-public-catering-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate adopted the bill for introducing a specific tax in the tourism and public catering industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On February 15, the senators adopted the bill for introducing a specific tax in the tourism and public catering industry.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&bdquo;This project is addressed to all companies that have a turnover of maximum 5 million EUR and have a maximum of 250 employees. This bill aims to increase voluntary compliance, respectively additional collections to the state budget,&rdquo; stated PSD deputy Mircea Dobre, one of the initiators.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The project was adopted in the Senate with 87 votes in favor, 7 against, and 6 abstentions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Minister of Finance, Anca Dragu, does not agree with the PSD initiative regarding a new specific tax on tourism, explaining that large operators would thus pay up to a third less, while small entrepreneurs would pay more.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafax.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Mediafax<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Who is affected by the new specific tax?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Companies in the tourism and public catering sectors with a turnover of up to 5 million EUR and a maximum of 250 employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the purpose of this bill?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bill aims to increase voluntary tax compliance and generate additional revenue for the state budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the Minister of Finance oppose the bill?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister argues that large operators would pay significantly less (up to a third), while small businesses would end up paying more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 15, the senators adopted the bill for introducing a specific tax in the tourism and public catering industry. &bdquo;This project is addressed to all companies that have a turnover of maximum 5 million EUR and have a maximum of 250 employees. This bill aims to increase voluntary compliance, respectively additional collections to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2859],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stirea-editiei-en"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/topstory.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123749"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}