Moldovan premier demands urgent adoption of Unified Report draft
12:01 | 19.07.2016 Category: Official
Chisinau, July 19 /MOLDPRES/ – Prime Minister Pavel Filip asked the finance minister and economics minister to expedite the review and countersign of a draft government decision on the implementation of unified report, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.
The measure is meant to facilitate the work of operators by reducing time and costs when compiling and submitting reports to public authorities, eliminating duplication of information, decreasing the reported data by approximately 40 per cent and creating needed conditions for legal entities to interact with a single authority, instead of three, as it is at present.
The draft provides for the unification of five reports related to salary payments and taxes paid:
• The report on the amount of income paid and income tax withheld from it, which is reported monthly to State Tax Service;
• Declaration on the calculation and use of mandatory state social insurance contributions, required monthly by the National Social Insurances House;
• Declaration of the insured person, including the REV-2 form, which is reported monthly to the National Social Insurance House;
• Report on calculating mandatory health insurance premiums, presented quarterly to the State Tax Service;
• Form 2-03/l, introduced by the the National Health Insurances House to change labour relations between employer and employee.
At the same time, implementation of unified reporting is beneficial also for public institutions, that are able to concentrate in one place data on labor remuneration fund, calculated taxes and contributions. This is actually an effective tool for predictable reporting and to combat tax evasion.
The draft on creating a unified report was developed by the Economics Ministry, with the support of BRITE (Business Rregulatory, Investment and Trade Environment), at an initiative by members of the Economic Council of the Prime Minister.
Currently, Moldova has a national information system of mandatory reporting, which is very complex and burdensome, and some information is doubled or even tripled.
According to statistics, in 2015, an enterprise from Moldova needed 186 hours to prepare the necessary documents and pay taxes.
(Editor M. Jantovan)