The business environment faces difficulties in implementing the new provisions to the law on payment for environment pollution and completing reports related to these payments.
Initially the problem was approached during the meeting of members of the European Business Association (EBA) with responsible persons of the Tax Service. During the meeting all the unclear questions faced by the business environment when applying the new provisions were discussed.
In this context the associative sector asked to approach the problem within the debate platform of the Economic Council under Prime Minister.
Within the meeting organized on May 2, 2017 business representatives have approached the unclear questions that they have at this chapter with the responsible persons of the State Ecological Inspectorate of the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Finance and Tax Service.
The subject was discussed with the participation of the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Finance, Tax Service, Association LAPTE, Association UPZM, Franzeluta, EFES Vitanta Moldova Brewery, CALM, commercial banks of Moldova, Moldcell and others.
The representatives of business environment have mentioned that the biggest obstacles they have in establishing the subjects of taxation for environmental pollution and the complexity of calculations that have to be done by the economic agents. At the same time, there are confusions at the subject of control procedures and competencies.
Nelian Capatina, representative of the State Ecological Inspectorate has mentioned that this situation was created because the methodology of calculating taxes for environmental pollution was elaborated in extremely short period of time and is a complicated one but it has to be respected anyway.
During the meeting representatives of the Ecological Inspectorate, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Finance and Tax Service came up with explications regarding establishing of polluting and waste payment, calculation of payments, types of packing and tax administration.
At the end of discussions participants of the work group agreed that the Ministry of Environment will create List of items subjected the tax for environmental pollution and will submit proposals that would streamline the tax collection process.
At the same time Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Finance will develop amendments to the acting legislation based on the objections presented by representatives of business community.
