Much ado about less than 150 million euros

The impact on the budget of the ordinance making people who earn incomes from royalties and sole trader contracts contribute to the healthcare and pension system is of merely 142 million euros, which is comparable to the gross profit derived by a state-owned company, Electrica, last year, which stood at almost 147 million euros.
Labour Minister yesterday held a news conference to reveal that Romanians did not rush to go the county pension houses or employment agencies and that he had concrete data in that regard: only 52,000 Romanians paid via royalties or sole trader contracts had submitted their statements. His speech came one day after the legal deadline allotted for submitting the statements in question.
“The number of those who came to submit statements is 5-10% of the number of those who should have. Those who are late with filing their statements will not be penalised because an internal verbal memo was issued, which is to be put in writing,” Șeitan said. Yet an official announcement of the extension of the deadline has yet to come.