* Ioan Niculae: "Galaxy Tobacco has no debts towards the state"
* The cigarette maker is listed with the biggest arrear to the state budget on the list of major debtors issued by the ANAF
* The courts have irrevocably decided the canceling of this debt, as, according to Niculae, that debt represents a state aid for the former SNTR
* Tender and Comănescu deny the debts from the list of the ANAF
The list of major state debtors, at the end of the first semester, published by the National Tax Administration (ANAF) raises some questions, because every time it is published, the companies included in it dispute the numbers.
Businesspeople Ioan Niculae, Ovidiu Tender and Gabriel Comănescu, who have companies in this chart of debtors, claim that the records of the Tax Administration have no connection to reality.
Galaxy Tobacco has no debts towards the state, says businessman Ioan Niculae, the owner of the cigarette maker. Meanwhile, the National Tax Administration (ANAF), states that Galaxy Tobacco is the largest debtor to the consolidated budget, with a debt of over 550 million de lei.
Ioan Niculae said that the outstanding amount which is featured in the records of the ANAF should have been deleted since back in 2o12: "Galaxy Tobacco has no debts towards the state budget. This is actually the state aid granted by law to the former Romanian Tobacco National Company (Societatea Naţionala Tutunul Românesc - SNTR) which the ANAF recorded as a debt owed by Galaxy Tobacco".
"We have won the lawsuit against the tax administration. Last year, the Supreme Court Of Justice has decided irrevocably and finally that this amount should be deleted from the records of the ANAF, but Şerban Pop (ed. note: the former head of the ANAF) refused".
In May last year, the experts of law firm "Boştină şi Asociaţii", announced in a press rel
