PM Tudose: Gov't wants to introduce very firm profit outsourcing measures

The government wants to introduce some "very firm" measures regarding the outsourcing of profits, Prime Minister Mihai Tudose announced on Wednesday, adding that this has led to "inflammation." 

"There are a number of changes to the Tax Code on the agenda and, in order not to be secretive, I am giving you a piece of my mind and the mind of some of my colleagues about the excessive inflammation of public opinion. It is not about the switch of the paying of contribution, as there the trade unions and employers' associations who until very late were very fine with switch, got inflamed after the Government wanted to introduce some very firm measures regarding the outsourcing of profits, by doing nothing but transposing into the Romanian legislation a European directive along with other measures that we think are worth taking so that the profit cannot be entirely deductible, so that the Government is left with some money from which to do education, healthcare and infrastructure. Some multinationals have got inflamed, but fortunately, I understand that they have understood that it is not the case because the end will be the same," Tudose said at the beginning of a government meeting.