Belgian Romanian Real Estate Chamber

As of 1 January 2018, pension and health insurance contributions are to be deducted directly from employees’ gross salaries .  The Law mentioned as of 1 January 2018, the amount of social contributions paid on employment income will be as follows:

Contributions deducted from gross salaries:

Pension insurance contribution – 25%

Health insurance contribution – 10%

A work insurance contribution of 2.25% of the gross salary due by employers

We present some legislative news with impact in the field of labor law and tax law.

A.     CHANGES IN THE FISCAL CODE

Government Emergency Ordinance no. 79/2017 for amending and completing the Law no. 227/2015 regarding the Fiscal Code.

The new normative act includes several changes to the tax regime, among which:

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A new legislative Order has introduced changes regarding the tax exemption available on the wages of IT professionals. In order to decide who will benefit from said tax exemption certain conditions must be met, as follows:

• Reintroduction of the EUR 10,000 threshold

In order to benefit from the income tax exemption for software engineers, the employer must have earned at least EUR 10,000 per software engineer during the previous fiscal year.

Why Employer Branding?

The "Start-Up Nation - Romania" programme awards the minimis aid to a maximum of 10,000  small and medium-sized enterprises at a maximum value of 200,000 lei per beneficiary, representing 100% of the value of eligible expenditure.

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MAXIM 100% AFN, but can not exceed 200,000 lei per beneficiary (including VAT for non-paying companies)

Where: Tinnenpot hall courtyard, Tinnenpotstraat 21, 9000 Ghent

When: Sunday, February 5th OM 15h

Speaker: ir. Freddy Jacobs, president "Belgian Romanian Real Estate Chamber '

You will get answer on the following topics:

The procedure regarding the exemption from income tax for IT employees was modified by Order of the Ministry of Finance no. 835/2015 which replaces the old legal framework (MFP Order no. 1479/2013 – repealed). The new regulations stipulate that the employees in this sector may be exempt from income tax only if they occupy certain positions, as defined by the law.

Starting July 30, the alumni working in this sector must be in one of the eight functions, as defined in the Annex of the Order 835/2015:

Document storage is required when you have historic documents that you need to retain, but do not have the facilities to store them securely. It is likely that the cost your office space is comparatively expensive compared to archive storage, resulting in off-site archive storage being more economical that keeping the boxes of documents in your office.