Average salary on economy grows by about 2,400 lei in Moldova in last three years

Chisinau, 17 January /MOLDPRES/ -The average salary on the economy has increased from 4,600 lei up to almost 7,000 lei in the last three years. Prime Minister Pavel Filip provided data to this effect while presenting the report on the government’s work in the last three years.  

At the same time, by 15 billion lei more has been collected in the state budget and the number of those receiving envelope salaries decreased by a half in one year alone. As for the exports, the PM said that, in the first half of 2018 alone, they had increased by 30 per cent up to 1.5 billion dollars and 70 per cent of the supplies go to the EU market.    

„What one cannot deny is that we have brought economic stability. After the 2015 year crisis, in 2016, we put Moldova on an ascendant trend and the country entered a new economic cycle. We have a constant economic growth of more than four per cent in all these years, which means one of the highest paces of economic growth in the region. We have reduced bureaucracy and gave possibility that all acts be requested online; we cut the taxes, I mean the reduction of the income tax to 12 per cent; we decreased the value added tax (VAT) to ten per cent for those from the HORECA industry; we decreased also the social tax by five percentage points, from 23 to 18; we cut from the pressure on economic agents,” Filip said.       

The prime minister also said that the Iasi-Ungheni-Chisinau gas pipeline was a priority of the government. ”I am confident that, till late 2019, this pipeline would be able to supply the entire country will the needed quantity of natural gas. As for the electric energy interconnection, we are set to be ready in the next two-three years,” the official added.

The Filip cabinet was sworn in office in January 2016.