Starts the rush of income declarations

Taxpayers will receive, in the following weeks, an envelope with forms for the independent activities incomes declaration. The papers must be sent to the Financial Administration before the 15 of May.

The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) announced that the letters will be sent to individuals until the 17 of April. The receivers must declare, before the 15 of May, their incomes received from independent activities, agricultural activities, share transactions and currency exchange operations.

The independent activities include commerce, intelectual property rights (inventions brevets, author rights), and freelancing proffesions: doctor, lawyer, notary, accountant, architect, fiscal consultant etc. Persons that obtained incomes from the rental of more than one flat will fill out the declaration for every income source in a separate column.

Those who recorded incomes from agricurtular activities are the persons that gained by selling flowers, vegetables, shrubs, decorative plants and mushrooms. The declaration, downoaded from the website

The letters that will be received by the taxpayers from ANAF contain two forms, a guide and a letter adressed to the citizens. Together with these documents, the taxpayers will receive a special envelope for the return of the completed form no. 200 to the financial administration.

If they don't receive the form by mail, the tax payers can download it from the Ministry of Economy website www.mfinante.ro, on the ANAF portal.

To download the document, they must select the "Taxpayers assistance" column, and the form no. 200 is found in the "All forms, with explanation" section. The declaration must be filled out in two copies, one of which will be kept by the taxpayer, and the other sent to the financial administration. OPTION

You can donate a part of the tax

Romanians can decide to donate 2% of the taxes payed for last year's income to a nonprofit organisation. In order to do this, the taxpayers must fill out the form no. 230. In 2007, about 560.000 persons asked that 2% from the 16% income tax to be redistributed to a nonprofit organisation.