Romania’s tax authority ANAF recruits 850 for new anti-fraud division, expects to collect more taxes

The new division of Romania’s tax authority ANAF, namely the General Directorate for Fiscal Anti-fraud (DGAF), will begin to operate within days with 850 people already recruited for the division. Through the DGAF, the tax authority expects to collect more taxes in the future. “A first phase of the tax authority’s reorganization plan was recently completed, when the institution selected 850 people to ensure the division’s activity,” said Octavian Deaconu, General Secretary of ANAF. DGAF will be responsible for preventing and combating any act of tax evasion and tax and customs fraud. In 2012, tax evasion reached 13.8 percent of GDP in Romania, a figure of EUR 19 billion (RON 84.14 billion), according to estimations made by the country’s Fiscal Council. More than half of this amount came from the VAT evasion, which represented 8.3 percent of GDP in 2011 -2012. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com