More than 20% of the employees in Moldova receive the salary fully or partially unofficially, shows a survey commissioned by the Institute for Development and Social Initiative “Viitorul” to the CBS-AXA Center for Sociological Research and Marketing. “The study shows the persons who receive the salaries “in an envelope” have lower education, are from rural areas, are young and have low incomes, IPN reports.

According to the study, the number of persons who receive the salary officially rose from 75.1% last year to 78.7% in the first half of 2018. The number of employees who get a part of the salary unofficially in the course of a year decreased from 71,000 in 2017 to 40,000 in the first months of 2018.

The number of those who work outside statistical proceedings increased insignificantly as these declared they received the whole salary unofficially. The figure rose from 102,000 in 2017 to 107,000 in the first months of 2018. The rise corresponds to the reduction in the average number of employees in 2018, of about 5,000 persons.

It was estimated that the salaries paid unofficially this year will represent 7.7 billion lei, as opposed to 7.5 billion lei in 2017. The national public budget this year will fail to collect almost 3.5 billion lei. Thus, the National House of Social Insurance will not get over 2.2 billion lei, the National Health Insurance Company – almost 700 million lei, while the state budget and the local budgets – 550 million lei from the income taxes paid by private individuals.