04.28.22

Proposal of e-transport

Romania is further extending the scope of taxpayers subject to fiscal obligations as we approach the deadline of 1st July 2022 for mandatory reporting of ‘high risk fiscal products’ through the national e-invoicing system. In line with other government mandates, a primary objective of this is for tax authorities to have greater visibility over transactions and thus reduce the VAT gap.

Romania has now honed in on tax owed to the state budget for the transport of goods specifically with a high fiscal risk; this has been identified as an area of potential exploitation, and the Romanian government is keen to reduce the tax gap in relation to this. To this effect, the Romanian government has published a draft Emergency Ordinance for the establishment of the National Transport Monitoring System of goods with high fiscal risk.

If this proposal is adopted, it will become optional from 1 April 2022 and mandatory as of 1st July 2022- therefore following the same timeframes as the reporting of high risk fiscal products to the national e-invoicing system.

The following groups that trade goods with high risk are anticipated to be in scope:
· the consignee named on the import customs declaration or the consignor named on the export customs declaration, for import/export cases;
· the beneficiary from Romania in cases of local transactions or intra-Community supplies of high tax risk goods;
· the supplier from Romania in cases of local transactions or intra-Community supplies of high tax risk goods;
· the warehouse administrator in case of the high tax risk goods which are subject to intra-Community transactions in transit, both for the goods unloaded in Romania for storage purposes or for the purposes of forming a new transport of one or many batches of goods, or for the goods loaded after storage or after a new local transport of goods was formed for one or many batches of the goods.

Tungsten Network will monitor developments regarding when this draft emergency Ordinance will be approved.