From the government that brought you a compulsory profit tax on losses, and a tax on fast food comes another wonderful initiative designed to see thousands more Romanian companies close: all Romanian companies (no matter their size) must hire not one, but two full time accountants.
Yes, you read that correctly.
More than 40 MPs, including big names in president Traian Basescu’s PD-L (such as Sulfina Barbu and Basescu’s favourite money-man, Silviu Prigoana) have put forward the idea as a way to solve the problem of Romania’s grey and black economies. The MPs claim that the proliferation of part-time and out-sourced accountancy means that too many unqualified accountants are signing off on documents, robbing the taxpayer of billions.
That might well be so; we haven’t a clue.
But forcing every company in the land to hire at least two accountants? That’s nonsense. For a start, where is Romania going to get one and a half million accountants from?
It is to be hoped that this law will never be passed: there must be enough MPs with enough common sense to make sure it never gets passed.
Or is that hoping for too much?
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What about freelance or independent accountants? Will they loose all the companies they work for because they are not full time hired by one single company?
After the elections I asked Adrian Nastase to gather all our voters on the streets, lay our hands on some bats and go break Basescu’s and Boc’s legs. The Moldovans and the slaves from Italy and Spain weren’t here to defend them.
Unfortunately Adrian Nastase said no…
Oh yeah, Adrian Nastase, a leader where it comes to integrity and caring for the common man.
He was 100 times better than Boc.
But personally I don’t care that much, I hope Boc will tie the thread around peoples’ necks until someone comes out and kills him with a knife.
I would do it if he lived next door…
tudor is spot-on.
These are all trial balloons to see what can pass without sufficient public outrage and what cannot. This, for example, will never become law.
No, I do not think it will become law either, but you never know. All 41 signatories come from the party of government, after all.
As for sufficient public outrage, there was plenty over the compulsory profit tax, or the taxa de prima inmatriculare: they still happened.
So while I would bet on it not happening, I would not bet too much.
Well, I was just waxing lyrical about Romanian absurdities… but I hope you’re right and they will drop it.
Unfortunately I feel that these redneck ideas (“solutii din topor”?) are completely consistent with the guys that are in parliament: ignorant but arrogant nouveau riche; proud results of our failed meritocracy: they have the symbols of merit but lack the merits. And I don’t think that for them what public thinks is that important, they probably see the “society” as just a bunch of losers that are not in parliament.
Are they sick or are they stupid?!
What is the purpose of these experiments?! Did someone ask them to do it?! And where do they want to get?
Aren’t they afraid that now or 20 years in the future someone will cut their throat for what they’re doing?
The only reason for which I won’t kill Basescu and Boc is because someone will do it before me.
You are completely misreading this. The correct way to see it is that the state feels that the Romanian businessmen are starting to have an easy life, and decided to throw them a challenge: “let us see how you are doing it now with TWO accountants, HA!”. And this is not a game, this is the long term official Romanian policy.
You have to realize that Romanians at some point in time realized that basic life is easy: sleep, eat, sleep, eat. And they saw the terrible effects of this simplicity in the western world, where because the life is so easy people start to be depressed, purposeless and in the end start fighting against life and society: right wing activists, mass suicides, Punk, Emo, etc. So, the Romanian solution to modern malaise is: never let the life become simple.
You have to get from point A to point B in Bucharest? Simple, no? Wrong: you have first to survive the slalom through the parked cars while you keep an eye on the stray dogs and one on the mad drivers. Reached the bus station? You feel the test is over? Wrong again. How do you know when the bus comes? What if they changed the route and failed to update the info in the station? Maybe you should walk? Finally the bus comes but is too crowded, so you take the next trolleybus that goes in the some approximate direction… is slow and is not exactly what you want, but you feel that at least you’re advancing…or are you?…because the traffic is completely blocked and you watch how people are walking faster… etc. etc. And this is just the basic stuff
. This is just the level 0 of Romanian life. So, no, the two accountants are not a problem. Are just a new way to spice up our life. And not too soon either: because life gets boring fast.
Never mind the lack economy this will destroy the economy full stop. No start up companies, no small companies. Just multinationals. Completely mad.