Number millionaires in national currency submitting declarations increases in Moldova, their wealth stands at 1.28 billion lei in 2017

Chisinau, 24 May /MOLDPRES/ - The number of millionaires from Moldova who  submitted income tax declarations for the 2017 fiscal period has doubled in the last five years and their cumulative wealth stood at 1.28 billion lei in the last year. The most pronounced increase was recorded among people who declared income from 1 to 3 million lei, from 285 people in 2015 to 354 in 2016 and 461 persons in 2017, the director of the State Fiscal Service (SFS), Sergiu Puscuta, told a news conference today.     

According to SFS, eight persons declared incomes worth over 11 million lei each. These sums include the incomes in form of dividends, royalty, incomes from gambling and promotional campaigns, incomes from renting movable chattels and real estate for legal entities, incomes from commercialization of production from phyto-technology, horticulture and zootechny.   

At least a number of 1,792 people in 2017 got incomes exceeding one million lei; thus, Moldova had by 243 millionaires more than in the year before. The youngest millionaire is 24 years old and the oldest one – 80. The data unveiled by the State Fiscal Service also shows that the biggest income registered by a private person was of almost 64 million lei.  

The SFS director also said that private persons (citizens) had submitted 211,208 declarations in all. The Fiscal Service finds out an increase in the number of declarations submitted electronically by 10,621 ones. More than 1.2 million private people in 2017 recorded taxable incomes amounting to 53.7 billion lei, with the sum of the income tax standing at 4.2 billion lei in all.    

According to the information declared by economic agents, revenues worth 364.90 billion lei and expenses amounting to 335.55 billion lei were recorded in 2017. The revenues grew by 19 billion lei and the expenditures increased by 9.39 billion lei against the previous year. The overall sum of the income tax, calculated on the reference period, stood at 3.51 billion lei, up by 789.12 million lei, or 23 per cent, against the same period of 2016.    

These indexes speak about the fact that the value added registered on the national economy on the whole has increased, as a result of the enhancement of the efficiency (profitableness) of business, as well as of the gradual decrease of the share of the underground economy, Serghei Puscuta added.      

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor M. Jantovan)