From July 1, 2022, companies can be fined up to 100,000 lei if they do not declare transport of goods with high fiscal risk
The Ministry of Finance in Romania has published information regarding possible fines for non-compliance with the new RO e-transport connected to the RO e-factura system.
The Romanian authorities are in process of establishing the National System for monitoring the road transport of goods with high fiscal risk - RO e-Transport. If the draft GEO is approved, companies should declare the goods starting on July 1st, 2022.
Romania decides what happens when not declaring transport of goods with high fiscal risk?
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This system will generate a unique code (ITU code) following the declaration. This code must accompany the goods that are being transported, in physical or electronic format with the transport document.
Fines reach up to 100,000 lei if the regulation is not respected.
In this regard, the following acts are sanctioned with a fine from 10,000 to 50,000 in the case of individuals or with a fine from 20,000 lei to 100,000 lei in the case of legal entities, as well as the confiscation of the value of undeclared assets:
-starting with 01.07.2022, for failure to declare data on all transports of goods with high fiscal risk;
- starting with 01.07.2022, it is forbidden the transport of goods with high fiscal risk which, together with the documents accompanying that transport, is not declared in the RO e-transport System or cannot be identified by the ITU code;
- the use by the road transport operator of the ITU code over its validity term, set at 5 calendar days starting with the declared date for the start of the transport, is forbidden;
- it is forbidden to unload on the Romanian territory the goods that are the object of intra-Community transactions in transit, except for those that are the object of storage or formation of a new transport from one or more parties of goods;
-declaring in the RO e-Transport System of different quantities from those that are the object of transport of goods.
- the users are obliged to make available to the road transport operator the ITU code related to the transported goods, directly or through the transport organizer, no later than the presentation of the vehicle at the road border crossing point at the entrance to Romania or the place of import, respectively the effective setting in motion of the vehicle, as the case may be. The ITU code is compulsorily written on the transport document, legible and without erasures or additions;
- it is forbidden to modify the data recorded in the RO e-Transport System regarding the transport of goods after the presentation at the road border crossing point at the entrance to Romania or the place of import, respectively after the effective movement of the vehicle, as the case may be;
If both goods with high fiscal risk and other goods that are not part of the category of those with high fiscal risk are transported together, the users have the obligation to declare in the RO e-Transport System the data related to the transport for all the transported goods, and the ITU code or ITU codes accompany the related transport document.
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