Multidisciplinary teams consisting of specialists of a number of state institutions will carry out a series of activities aimed at identifying the taxpayers that pay salaries ‘in envelope’ and use ‘illegal labor’. Joint regulations governing the activity of the multidisciplinary teams were signed by the National Confederation of Trade Unions, the General Police Inspectorate, the State Main Tax Inspectorate and the State Labor Inspectorate on May 5, IPN reports.
General Police Inspectorate head Gheorghe Cavcaliuc said the multidisciplinary teams will make effort to identify the economic entities that break the law based on the available cash, the work performed in the traditional sectors and the significant turnover against the salary fund.
State Main Tax Inspectorate chief Ion Prisacaru said different seminars will be held at the Inspectorate to make the employees aware of the negative effects of ‘illegal labor’ and salaries ‘in envelope’. The head of the State Labor Inspectorate Dumitru Stavila noted that these phenomena cause disloyal competition and affect the healthy economy.
According to the statistics to which the trade unions referred, 57% of the employees’ work is not declared, with billions of lei circulating in the underground economy.
