More than 170,000 jobs created in Moldova in last three years

Chisinau, 14 December /MOLDPRES/ - More than 170,000 jobs have been created in the last three years, which is due to the reform for business, carried out by the government. Prime Minister Pavel Filip today made statements to this effect while presenting the cabinet’s action programme for 2016-2018 in parliament.  
The official noted that the present government was a pro-business one. “Practically in each district, people tell us that they face the lack of jobs. At the same time, not the state is the one which creates jobs, but the business, business people. That is why, when we came to power, we declared ourselves a pro-business government and my first decision as prime minister was to put a moratorium on controls and cease the harassment of business people by control bodies, the number of which decreased from 60 to 13. We have cut the number of permissive acts five-fold, from more than 400 to 150, which brought savings worth 200 million lei annually for the business. Another 60 million lei will be saved, given that business people can demand over 50 out of those 150 permissive acts at the single window. Till 1 April, all acts could be requested online,” Filip said.    
The prime minister stressed that the number of employees getting envelope salaries had decreased by a half. “We have launched the fiscal reform, reduced the income tax to 12 per cent, decreased the value added tax (VAT) for the HORECA industry and reduced the pressure on business on behave of the law-enforcement bodies. We have a single tax in the IT sector and I am happy that we have 320 residents in the IT park. We allocated almost one billion lei for subsidies in agriculture and 45 million lei for subsidies in advance provided to young people and women willing to start businesses in agriculture. After the economic decline from 2015, we have had a constant economic growth for three years in a row, 4.5 per cent in 2017 and 5.2 per cent this year in the second quarter. In the first half of 2018 alone, the exports grew by 30 per cent up to 1.5 billion dollars. Seventy per cent of the exports go the European Union,” Pavel Filip said.  
According to the data unveiled, in the last three years, investments of 160 million dollars and 7,500 newly created jobs have been recorded in Free Economic Zones, twice as much as till 2016. In the first half of this year, foreign direct investments amounting to about 130 million dollars were made in Moldova’s economy, up by 43 million against the same period of 2017. At the same time, data shows that, in the first 11 months of 2018, by two billion lei more was collected in the state budget than earlier forecast. Also, by more than five billion lei higher revenues were registered in 2018 against the year before.