ROMANIA’S TAX SYSTEM: GOING BACKWARDS OR MOVING FORWARD?

Abstract

Having a tremendous importance for the modern state, tax system objectives, regulations and collection is a precise barometer for state’s economic development and for its trajectory, as well as for more subtle aspects such as political efficiency and common weal. As we can easily understand it is essential that we know and comprehend the means and the endings of tax system in a dynamical sequence that means always looking at where it came from and , in the same time, where it is going to. It is for these reasons that we proposed a time evolution analyze for the Romanian tax system, highlighting its main components such as: personal income tax, corporate income tax, value added tax, social contributions, excise duty and the changes they have been through in the past years focusing on the current “fiscal revolution” and the alterations produced of Romania’s tax system seen as a part of the European tax system.