OREANDA-NEWS. April 09, 2013. This was stated by Deputy Director of the Fiscal Service Adrian Timotin at a press conference on Friday. He noted that a number of fly-by-night companies is declining year by year. According to him, restricting and controlling the distribution of tax invoices is an important instrument to combat against such companies.

“Businessmen are complaining that these restrictions are inconvenient, but if we lift them, we will be thrown back to the situation of 2008, when there were close to 200 fly-by-night companies that caused the damage of 3.4 billion leis. This is one fifth of the state budget”, said Adrian Timotin. He said that thanks to various measures taken in 2012 fiscal officers managed to detect 35 such firms.

They impaired the budget by 138 million leis. According to Adrian Timotin, honest companies can not be put to inconvenience due to measure taken against offenders. That was why on April, 1 the State Fiscal Services drawn up a list of companies to be exempted from restrictions on the distribution of tax invoices. Up to date the list has included 800 companies and will be enlarged. According to Adrian Timotin, at the end of 2013 – the beginning of 2014 the Fiscal Service is going to put into practice a system of electronic tax invoices in order to put an end to the problem of fly-by-night companies.

In the mean time, to improve the process of the distribution of documents, the State Fiscal Service decided to move the centre for distributing tax invoices and forms of strict accounting documents from 53, Hincesti Highway to office 303, 7/2, Teilor Street for taxpayers administrated by territorial fiscal units. Economic entities from Chisinau will go on obtaining the above mentioned documents in 53, Hincesti Highway. According to Adrian Timotin, the overwhelming majority of fly-by-night companies are registered in Chisinau.