* Thousands of small companies are being foreclosed on for small outstanding debts, but this measure has dramatic effects: taxpayers are closing down their businesses, and as a result the state gets left with baubles, which it even has to pay to store
More and more small business owners complain about the Tax Administration foreclosing on them for small outstanding debts they can"t pay because of the crisis. some of the companies have small debts, but the state mercilessly sells anything they find in their offices: from beds, tables, chairs, to mattresses or other items of low value.
The newspapers are filled with ads in which the National Tax Administration Agency auctions off the assets of companies, from apartments and land, to cars, computers or furniture.
The situation is tragic and ridiculous at the same time: The Tax Department of Băileşti wants to make nice money for the state budget by selling a stainless steel kitchen sink and an extensible bed with mattress, the one in Bacău thinks it can cover the company"s outstanding debt by selling a set of painting frames, and the one in Suceava announces the sale of a freezer box, and the examples could go on... The state is looking more like a small-time crook, who, come spring, goes to seize the goslings of the unfortunate peasants that can"t pay the land tax owed to their master.
Of course, given the current budget constraints, the state is entitled to resort to foreclosures in order to recover the amounts it is owed, but small entrepreneurs say that if that is the case, the state should turn its attention to the major debtors that have important assets, instead of selling the assets of small businesses and selling them for pennies.
And the numbers show that small business owners are right: the list of major debtors which have outstanding debts to the state, includes 448 companies w
