The Moldovan people must benefit from the right to direct up to 2% of the paid income tax to any public association or religious organization from the community. Members of the Parliament’s commission on economy, budget and finance, who came together for a meeting of the working group on the framework for regulating the secondary legislation for implementing the ‘2%’ Law, said the goal is to involve the people in the development of communities to a greater extent, IPN reports, quoting a communiqué from Parliament.
The NGOs and religious organizations take care of many socially deprived groups of people, open centers for orphans and elderly people, educate hundreds of thousands of children and young people by non-formal methods, etc. Namely this fact made the governments of many states to accept transferring a part of the income tax of private individuals to those who can solve certain problems of modern society the best and who can become involved in the social life of society. Thus, starting with 2014, the practice of most of the European countries started to be applied in Moldova too, reads the communiqué.
In a news conference at IPN earlier, the National NGO Council of Moldova called on Parliament to abrogate the given Tax Code provision because it was voted ‘under the table’ and can lead to money laundering. The Council’s secretary general Antonita Fonari said that in essence, it is a necessary initiative. Work on it lasted for almost five years. But last December Parliament passed it in a form that wasn’t discussed with civil society and the Government. The working group decided that the public utility mechanism should be strengthened so that all the institutions that will benefit from these 2% are of public utility. But, under the passed bill, only the NGOs must have a public utility certificate, not yet the religious organizations.
