Ionuț Dumitru: I think the approach to ANAF should be more radical/ Greece has abolished the previous entity and re -established another independent, with professionals, with goals

ANAF is a non -functional institution, which should be abolished and re -established with professionals to ensure an effective tax collection, said economist Ionuț Dumitru, counselor of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, at Digi24adding that opinion is a personal one and does not reflect the position of the government on this topic.

“I personally, once again, I do not know what is the opinion of the government on this topic and the Minister of Finance, first of all, that the ANAF is, but I would have an approach that should be more radical. Look what happened in Greece, for example.
So Greece managed to collect much more than a percentage of GDP. What did he do? It simply abolished the previous entity and re -established another independent, outside the Government, with professionals appointed there, with very well defined goals. I recommend everyone to enter the website of the Tax Authority in Greece to see how the KPIs they have, how many debts are collected, which is the goal they have, how much they have achieved month by month. I do this in an exercise in transparency that I have not seen much, “said Ionuț Dumitru.

The tax revenues of Romania as a share in GDP are the lowest in the EU, except for Ireland, which has an atypical situation, in the sense that the official statistics are strongly distorted by the presence of the multinationals with fiscal headquarters there.

In addition, Romania is in the procedure of deficit Excessively, being in negotiations with the European Commission on its reduction trajectory from 9.3% of GDP in 2024 to about 8% of GDP this year.

The execution of the general consolidated budget in the first seven months of 2025 ended with a deficit 76.44 billion lei, respectively 4.04% of GDP. The total revenues totaled 370.77 billion lei in the first seven months of 2025, registering an increase of 11.8% compared to the same period of 2024.

Ionuț Dumitru stated that the 1 measures package is sufficient to reduce the budget deficit to 6% of GDP next year.

“From the perspective of taxes, the package 1, which has been approved, is probably enough for the moment, because if we look at the estimated effect for 2026, you should bring a significant impact, over 3% of GDP, which, theoretically, should be enough to bring the deficit to about 6% of GDP next year,” said Ionuț.