The government has been trying for a while to find ways, not exactly beneficial to the Romanian economy, to increase revenues to the state budget. According to the provisions of Art. 74 para. (4) of the Tax Code, approved by Law no. 571/2003, the chapter on ''tax on income from agricultural activities'', as of 1 January 2009 the farmers are compelled to pay a tax of 2% of the value of the products sold to processors, so the government hopes this will "swell'' the budget by 50.8 million lei. Nevertheless, the representatives of both the employers and the trade unions are skeptical that the government will be able to collect the money on the peasants' account, and even more than that, say this measure will increase more tax evasion in agriculture. The President of the National Union of Employers with Private Capital (UNPCPR), Costel Olteanu, told us this measure to apply a tax of 2% of value was seen as an attempt to collect more money to the budget, but it was not the happiest solution, especially that it would affect a category that had been disfavoured many times. Moreover, he pointed out that the Government wanted to obtain money on the peasants' account, but most of the times they would not think about the consequences of such measures. On the other hand, the employers' representatives specified that, throughout the world, the producers of goods are also tax payers to the state budget and, from this point of view, the provision of the Tax Code seems normal, but how it was calculated does not. "I find it abnormal how this contribution was calculated. In agriculture, under normal conditions, the average rate of profit (net income) is not higher than 5-6%. Applying the 16% flat tax to this income, it results a tax of 0.8-0.9% and not 2%. The way in which the collection of this tax is provided, by withholding it at the source, puts the source, i.e. the beneficiary of