Finance Minister Victoria Belous stated in a comment for ZdG that the amendment to tax legislation that shocked the diaspora will be revised.
It should be recalled that the recently presented tax reform plan from Tofan’s government provided for the introduction of a 12% inheritance tax for non-residents.
Under this term in international law, individuals who do not permanently reside in the country are meant, regardless of their citizenship. This is precisely why numerous Moldovan citizens living abroad would fall under the taxation. They would not be able, for example, to enter into inheritance rights to real estate without paying a significant sum of money. Naturally, among other things, such an innovation would severely complicate the prospect of the diaspora’s return.
Now the minister, who has experience working in tax authorities and who, by all accounts, should be a major expert in tax legislation and should have been among the first to carefully read the document, tells us that such a legal norm arose due to “insufficient communication.”
We have no doubt about Belous’s professional competence. After all, so many years spent in high-ranking positions in the tax authorities would turn anyone into a decent tax specialist. But the way she has made a fool of herself twice a day, showing that she does not understand the subject, while trying to make excuses for the regime’s blunders — looks pathetic.
