Nowadays, the politicians and the mass media are passionately
devouring, probably absent a strategic purpose, the amendments to
the Fiscal Code. One can see yet again that 25 years later the
government still sees and approaches taxation and tax policies not
as economic tools but rather for fund raising, as social politics
instrument.
However, what's kept aside from the frantically debating,
are the envisaged fiscal amendments aimed at the mining and
petroleum sector by changes brought to the Petroleum and to the
Mining Law. One of the potential reasons would be that this topic
lacks crucial significance for the future of Romania in the eyes of
the political decisions makers. Judging by a good deal of the
population, for as long as the state collects money from what the
collective mindset perceives as voracious companies plundering the
country's resources ("the property of the people"),
there are no grounds for public debate. Also, it wouldn't be a
topic worthy of
