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AstComplicatedday the government meeting will be held in which measures will be taken to limit budget expenditures. The government prepares the ground for the 2021 budget. To face the 7% deficit that it has proposed, the Executive is limiting, for example, one more year budget income and special pensions are postponed, as well as the increase in salaries of Education. All the measures to prepare the budget for 2021 will be contained in an emergency ordinance that will be approved at the government meeting.
Regarding the freezing of budgetary income, it includes salaries, bonuses, bonuses, which will be capped at the level of 2020. The measure also affects the salaries of dignitaries, pensions of parliamentarians, magistrates, soldiers, members of the Court of Accounts, etc. .
The granting of the minimum inclusion income to April 2022 will be postponed even further. It is an income that has not been granted since the law was approved, it was postponed from one year to another. He should have come to the aid of families or single people who are in a precarious economic situation.
However, there are also measures to help people who have been financially affected by the pandemic. Thus, the subscription period will be extended until March 31, 2021.
The allocations would increase by 20 percent in 2021, but it is unclear when or in what way. The pension point will increase by 8 percent, but only from September. And the minimum wage would increase, after discussions between employers, unions and the prime minister, but the amount displeases unionists.
Measures prepared by the Government
- increase in allowances by 10% on January 1, 2021 and another 10% in August
- pension point increase by 8% since September
- increase in teachers’ salaries, postponed until December
- freeze budget revenue in 2020
- freeze the salaries of dignitaries
- freezing of special pensions by 2022
- suspension of special pensions for mayors until 2022
- postponement of the minimum inclusion income to April 2022
- Vacation vouchers will be issued in electronic format only.
- tax amnesty for sanctions extended until March 31, 2021
- extension of the debt rescheduling term until March 31, 2021
- The VAT refund with subsequent control has a new deadline: March 31, 2021
Support measures for a pandemic
Prime Minister Florin Cîţu said on Monday that the ordinance on measures for the 2021 budget will be approved at the government meeting on Wednesday, including state aid for HoReCa, granting of holiday vouchers, aid through SME Invest, extension of active measures until June 30, 2021.
“It will be an ordinance that will be made transparent and will be approved at the government meeting on Wednesday. Active measures will be extended until June 30, 2021. (…). Flexible working is a measure that I believe will continue in Romania. Below are those state aid measures through SME Invest, the news that Agro SME Invest will be approved at the next meeting by the Government, I hope you are ready with all opinions. It is a measure that those in the agricultural sector are waiting for, with guarantees of up to one billion lei, ”said Florin Cîţu, at the Victoria Palace.
He added that the state aid scheme for the provision of economic aid to HoReCa will be approved and promoted, “a long-awaited measure”, a scheme that has a budget of 500 million euros.
“Holiday vouchers worth 1,450 lei to stimulate Romanian tourism will continue in 2021. For HoReCa, on the one hand we have this state aid system, the voucher system continues and I can tell you that by March those in this sector will be exempt of the payment of the specific tax, ”said the prime minister.
Also on the agenda for Wednesday’s hearing is a draft emergency ordinance on taking action on the composition of appeal panels, but also a draft decision on the organizational structure and personnel of the Ministry of the Interior.
The government will also decide on the release and appointment of prefects and sub-prefects and will discuss the memorandum on the presentation of the periodic national report on the implementation of the international convention for the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, says Agerpres.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
