ARSIT: Red tape will be reduced when civil servants will have to get all the papers themselves

Forcing fiscal authorities employees to obtain from other institutions the documents that taxpayers need, as is the case with getting the tax offence record from the Trade Registry, is a solution to cut red tape, according to the Association for the Reformation of the Tax System (ARSIT).

“The question is how we can efficiently counter civil servants’ tendency to constantly boost the number of papers “necessary”. We expect civil servants will reduce the number of papers when they will have to get them. The authority must obtain on its own the papers it needs from other state institutions. This is already happening when setting up a company, with the Trade Registry obtaining the tax offence record on its own,” said Florin Cojocariu, executive manager of ARSIT at the conference to launch the association.

ARSIT, set up at the end of 2010 by 34 founding members, intends to create a website with the “heroes” of administrative abuse, cases where justice had its say and cases of wasting public money.