Accounting, business and taxes news October 2015
Business news
IMF prognosis for Romania, revised
According to the autumn edition of the World Economic Outlook (WEO) report of IMF, Romania will register this year an economic growth of 3.4% and an increase of 3.9% in 2016. The April edition of the same report forecasted a 2.7% increase for 2015 and a 2.9% one for 2016.
Also, IMF forecasts an inflation rate of -0.4% for 2015 and one of -0.2% for 2016.
Regarding the unemployment, the IMF figures are 6.9% for 2015 and 6.8% for 2016.
The GDP increased by 3.7% in first semester of 2015 comparing to same period of 2014.
Mugur Isarescu, Romanian National Bank Governor: why Romania has 200,000 companies with yearly losses?
According to RNB Governor, a third of Romanian companies register loss every year. He urged the State authorities to check if they are really in loss position, and if so, to create the legal framework to enable them to quickly dissolute.
Average net salary in August 2015
The Romanian National Statistic Institute communicated that the average net salary for August 2015 was 1,813 RON (e.g. 410 EUR), 36 RON less the one of July 2015. The biggest net salaries were in oil and gas industry, and the smallest one in horeca industry.
Decision regarding Romania entrance in Schengen zone, delayed again
Romania decided to withdraw the issue of its Schengen zone admittance from the agenda of the meeting of the European Internal Affairs Ministries which will take place this week.
According to Romanian Prime Ministry Victor Ponta, there were four countries which would have been voted against this admittance – in this case the whole procedure of admittance should have been restarted from the beginning.
The most vocal “No” country was France, followed by Germany, the Netherlands and Finland.
Tax news
Taxation of the work in Romania:106%
The Romanian taxation of the work is among the highest from Europe.
In 2015, from 100 RON salary expenses, in average only 48.45 RON represent the net salary. The rest is salary taxes and social contributions.
Application Norms of the new Fiscal Code
Finance Ministry officials announced that the application norms of the new Fiscal Code would appear in November 2015.
They will include mainly examples to treat the situations which will occur at the “border” period between the actual and new VAT quota, the reverse charge system which will be introduced for some new inland transactions, etc.
Macroeconomic indicators
RON / EUR ex-rate evolution
31.12.2010: 4.2848
31.12.2011: 4.3197
30.12.2012: 4.4287
31.01.2013: 4.4847
31.12.2014: 4.4821
31.01.2015: 4.4424
28.02.2015: 4.4381
31.03.2015: 4.4061
30.04.2015: 4.4031
31.05.2015: 4.4395
30.06.2015: 4.4931
31.07.2015: 4.4075
31.08.2015: 4.4302
30.09.2015: 4.4248
Inflation rate evolution
2010: 6.09 %
2011: 5.79 %
2012: 3.33 %
2013: 3.98 %
2014: 1.07 %
Jan. 2015 / Jan. 2014: 0.41%
Feb. 2015 / Feb. 2014: 0.40%
Mar. 2015 / Mar. 2014: 0.79%
Apr. 2015 / Apr. 2014: 0.65%
May 2015 / May 2014: 1.16%
Jun. 2015 / Jun. 2014: – 1.55%
Jul. 2015 / Jul. 2014: – 1.67%
Aug. 2015 / Aug. 2014: -1.87%
Tax deductible loan interest rate
RON: 1.75%
EUR: 6%