{"id":124934,"date":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/anat-requests-9-vat-reduction-for-all-restaurants\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:18:52","slug":"anat-requests-9-vat-reduction-for-all-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/anat-requests-9-vat-reduction-for-all-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"ANAT Requests 9% VAT Reduction for All Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) maintains that VAT should be reduced for all restaurants from 24% to 9%, not just for meals included in tourist packages. This measure would lead to both price reductions and, more importantly, encourage all restaurant owners to pay VAT in a sector where evasion is at 50%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alin Burcea, Vice President of the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT), estimates that if VAT were also reduced for restaurants, they would, on one hand, lower prices, making them more accessible to customers, including Romanian or foreign tourists, and on the other hand, it would result in a decrease in tax evasion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He specified that the measure allowing customers not to pay the bill if they do not receive a fiscal receipt will have positive effects.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the end of January 2015, the Government approved the introduction of the fiscal receipt lottery, with a monthly or occasional drawing system for receipts received by buyers for products\/services valued between 1-999 RON. From March, a customer has the right not to pay for the selected or consumed product if they have not received a fiscal receipt from the merchant.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first occasional drawing of the fiscal receipt lottery, to be organized on the second day of Easter, April 13, will include fiscal receipts issued between February 2 and March 28, with an allocated prize fund of 1 million RON, according to a draft order from the Ministry of Finance. The prize fund will be increased by the amounts necessary to round up the winning value associated with a fiscal receipt.<\/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>What is ANAT proposing regarding VAT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ANAT is proposing a reduction of the VAT rate from 24% to 9% for all restaurants, aiming to standardize the rate across the tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How would a VAT reduction affect consumers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reduction is expected to lower menu prices, making dining out more affordable for both local and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What measures are being taken to combat tax evasion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides the proposed VAT cut, the government introduced the fiscal receipt lottery and a rule allowing customers to not pay if a receipt is not provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) maintains that VAT should be reduced for all restaurants from 24% to 9%, not just for meals included in tourist packages. This measure would lead to both price reductions and, more importantly, encourage all restaurant owners to pay VAT in a sector where evasion is at 50%. Alin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2852],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-124934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotels-restaurants"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hotelieri-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124934","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=124934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124934"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=124934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}