Media: Romania’s tax agency to verify Uber, Taxify partner drivers

The Romanian tax agency ANAF is reportedly getting ready to verify the collaborators of Uber and Taxify (Bolt). An official document of the Ministry of Finance drafted at the beginning of the month shows that ANAF is preparing “anti-fraud controls” that target the drivers working with Uber and Taxify, Profit.ro reported.

The document reveals that “steps have been taken at the level of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (e.n. ANAF) to identify the collaborators of entities that facilitate ridesharing services, and the data obtained will be analyzed for triggering anti-fraud controls to ascertain the circumstances in which they operate and evaluate possible consequences of fiscal, contraventional or criminal nature.”

This comes at a time when the Romanian government is reportedly preparing an emergency ordinance that would allow the police to levy heavy fines upon drivers offering transport services without a license, from the first offense. This would lead to the disappearance of alternative transport services such as Uber and Taxify (Bolt).Ridesharing companies have reacted to this information and issued a joint statement in which they asked the government to postpone a potential decision that would negatively impact this growing sector.

Meanwhile, the Senate already passed a bill for regulating ridesharing services in Romania.

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