Business associations of Moldova suggest imposing moratorium on supervisory authority inspections in tax and duty payments during electoral campaign period. The measure is necessary for eliminating political influence to the economic activity of enterprises.

The idea was proposed on the meeting of the “Guillotine-2” project implementation. At the meeting was presented a report based on 750 enterprise study which has shown that economic agents still have administrative problems with state institutions. The study includes such problems as difficult procedure of getting authorizations like certificate of absence or presence of wage arrears; formal character or uselessness of some documents; extra charging for obtaining documents. Other problems in the area are: duplication of review services, frequent business inspections, non-transparent and unfounded checking; restraining and blocking enterprise activities; hostility and low skill level of inspectors.

Cases of illegal inspections were studied at the meeting. For example, Moldovan customs service started an inspection of Südzucker Moldova at the March 24 without legal grounds. The inspection is still performing, and this fact makes German investors being worried. It was caused by 20 thousand tons sugar imported from Belarus and EU for deficit appeared because of 2009 bad harvest.

The audit company PriceWaterhouseCoopers Moldova said their clients like pharmaceutical and trade companies frequently face inspections and free interpretation of regulations, instructions and laws.

Moldovan Vice-Primer Valeriu Lazar expressed an anxiety about enterprise inspections becoming more frequent; it has a character of bad tendency and can influence unfavorably Moldovan business development and investment attractiveness.
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[ 2010-07-22 ]