OREANDA-NEWS. February 06, 2014. The parliamentary commission on economy and budget is ready to promptly revise taxation of individuals selling livestock products to processing plants.
The commission was requested by the National Association of Producers of Milk and Dairy Products to repeal the 2% tax milkmen are supposed to pay starting 2014 for selling milk to milk processing plants, Chair of the Commission Veaceslav Ionita said.

The tax is levied on milk, meat, fruit, vegetable and nut producers, Veaceslav Ionita said. It has been introduced at the initiative of the Association of European Business, which offered this formula to protect nut growers from accusations of tax evasion. However, the tax has been levied on milk producers too. According to the National Association of Milk and Diary Products, 80 to 90% of milk is produced by dairymen.

Most of them are retirees for whom selling milk is an additional bread-winner. Introduction of one more tax will hit at them and put in jeopardy existence of the branch itself, triggering an increase in prices for dairy products.

In his interview Veaceslav Ionita said that according to the information he possesses, milk producers had never been reported as tax dodgers and this is the reason why the commission is ready promptly consider the matter of amending the law.