Around 70,000 tax payers have acquired digital certificates in order to submit their fiscal declarations online in Romania, according to the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF). The companies which haven't acquired digital certificates have a six-month grace period to do so and can still submit the declaration in hard copy at the ANAF offices. In total, around 470,000 tax payers have to submit the single declaration for social contribution and income tax- the 112 declaration.

A digital certificate costs EUR 50, according to Mediafax newswire and allows the holder the possibility to submit declarations for more than one company. This means EUR 3.5 million worth of digital signature certificates have been bought so far.

Three companies are listed on the e-Guvernare.ro website as certification issuers: Certsign SRL, Digisign SRL, Trans Sped SRL. A digital certificate is a virtual identity card enabling the identification on the internet.

The single income tax and social contributions declaration replaces five monthly declarations that taxpayers had to fill in and submit in hard copy before the new ruling was enforced at the beginning of this year.

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