Digitalization of the National Tax Authority essential to reduce tax evasion

Digitalization of public services in the country is a priority for the authorities, but the pace of implementation continues to be slow.

One of the most important public administration reforms remains the digitization of the National Tax Authority (ANAF), with the aim of reducing tax evasion and increasing tax collection.

Speaking at the Digital Innovation Summit in Bucharest, Finance Minister Tanczos Barna emphasized the necessity of this process for a functional relationship between the state and the taxpayer.

Tanczos Barna: The Ministry of Finance, together with ANAF, we have an obligation to develop the institutions, from a digitized IT point of view, so that we increase, for example, voluntary compliance in the area of tax payments. Digitization helps the tax administration to identify contributors, tax payers to collect taxes, to provide systems that do not bother that correct tax payer, but to focus control and checks on those who try to evade the law.

Translated by: Radu Matei