Answer: According to the Tax Code, the taxable person who has established their business in Romania and made or intends to undertake an economic activity involving taxable transactions exempted from value added tax with rights to deductibility and / or operations resulting from economic activities for which the place of delivery / provision shall be deemed to be abroad, if the tax would be deductible, in the case that these operations were carried out in Romania, must apply for registration for VAT purposes to the tax authorities, as follows:
a) previous to the operations, if:
b) when during a calendar year, it equals or exceeds the exemption threshold of 300,000 lei - within 10 days after the month in which equaled or exceeded that ceiling;
c) when the turnover achieved during a calendar year is less than the exemption threshold of 300,000 lei, but opts to apply the normal tax regime;
d) when it carries out tax exemption operations and opts to tax these operations according to art. 141 para. (3) of the Tax Code.
A taxable person who has established his business outside Romania but is established through a fixed registered office, must apply for registration for VAT purposes under the terms of the Tax Code. Our lawyers in Romania can help you obtain a Romania VAT number for your company.
With regard to taxable persons not established in Romania nor registered for VAT purposes in Romania, they will require registration for VAT purposes to the competent authorities for operations that are tax deductible, conducted in Romania, other than transport services and services ancillary thereto, prior to the operations, except for the case that the person liable to pay tax is the beneficiary.
According to the Tax Code, the taxable person who has established their business in Romania and made or intends to undertake an economic activity involving taxable transactions exempted from value added tax with rights to deductibility and / or operations resulting from economic activities for which the place of delivery / provision shall be deemed to be abroad, if the tax would be deductible, in the case that these operations were carried out in Romania, must apply for registration for VAT purposes to the tax authorities, as follows:
a) previous to the operations, if:
b) when during a calendar year, it equals or exceeds the exemption threshold of 300,000 lei - within 10 days after the month in which equaled or exceeded that ceiling;
c) when the turnover achieved during a calendar year is less than the exemption threshold of 300,000 lei, but opts to apply the normal tax regime;
d) when it carries out tax exemption operations and opts to tax these operations according to art. 141 para. (3) of the Tax Code.
A taxable person who has established his business outside Romania but is established through a fixed registered office, must apply for registration for VAT purposes under the terms of the Tax Code.
With regard to taxable persons not established in Romania nor registered for VAT purposes in Romania, they will require registration for VAT purposes to the competent authorities for operations that are tax deductible, conducted in Romania, other than transport services and services ancillary thereto, prior to the operations, except for the case that the person liable to pay tax is the beneficiary.
If you are a business owner in Romania, SRL or otherwise, our attorneys in Romania can help you with the VAT registration.
In order to obtain your Romania VAT number, you must complete and submit an application for registration found on NAFA's official website, under the conditions and criteria set out in Order no. 17/2015 on establishing criteria for conditioning the registration for VAT purposes.
The form under which the taxable person requires re-registration for VAT purposes is form 099 "Application for VAT purposes according to art. 153 para. (9^1) b) - d) of the Law no. 571/2003 on the Tax Code ". If such an application is not submitted within 180 days from the date of cancellation, the tax authorities will not approve any subsequent applications for registration for VAT purposes.
Foreign businessmen who want to obtain a Romania VAT number should know that for registration of legal entities in the Trade Register, when predicting overruns of the 300,000 lei threshold, the documentation required for VAT registration ( form 098 and form 088) is deposited on the same day as filing the documentation with the Trade Register.
However, a company that performs economic activities can opt to register for VAT after the registration in the Commercial Register, even if the threshold that obliges the company to register for VAT purposes is not met, by filing Forms 010 and 088 to the tax authorities.
The ascertainment of the conditions of registration for VAT purposes in Romania under art.153 of the Tax Code is carried out by the department responsible for tax registration based on information present in the financial semester/annual statements, statements and other documents filed by taxpayers. These conditions envisaged by the fiscal authorities are:
Our team of Romanian lawyers can provide you with more details about these conditions.
If the taxpayer meets the evaluation criteria in part, the responsible department in assessing the intention and ability to conduct business invites the legal representative of the taxpayer to its headquarters. If the latter does not provide the accurate and complete data and information required and doesn’t clarify the intention and ability of the taxable person to carry out economic activities involving economic activities that consist in transactions within the scope of VAT, the compartment competent in assessing the intent and ability to carry out economic activities forwards the request for VAT purposes registration, with all the documentation that represented the basis of the analysis, to the competent regional fraud directorate, which issues the proposal to approve or refuse the registration for VAT purposes in Romania.
Addressing the request for VAT purposes registration ends with the decision to approve / reject the registration for VAT purposes and the decision to approve or reject it is communicated to the taxable person.
Yes, the tax authorities may withdraw the registration of a person for VAT purposes in Romania in the following situations:
Our Romanian lawyers can assist you if the company is included in one of these situations.
Answer: The intra-Community VAT number was introduced as a necessity, since companies were burdened by futile administrative tools.
The intra-Community trade is standardized through this tax, which is applied to taxable entities selling goods and services across European countries’ borders. Most important categories of taxable transactions refer to the supply of goods made by a taxable person, acquisitions in a Member State of goods from another Member State, services provided by a taxable person and imports of goods from outside the European Union.
In order to register for a EU VAT number, business entities in Romania must register as an intra-Community trade operator. There is a set of documents which must be provided in order to complete this registration process. A response shall be provided by the fiscal authority within ten days from the application. These procedures are mandatory since any business entity which omitted to register with the Registry of Intra-Community Operators shall not be provided with a valid EU VAT number, under any circumstances.
The experts at our Romanian law firm can assist companies that perform intra-community acquisitions.
Yes, according to the Tax Code, the following persons are required to apply for registration for VAT purposes:
Before obtaining your Romania VAT number, you should know that a taxable person established in Romania that is not registered or required to register under Art. 153, as well as a non-taxable person established in Romania, can apply for registration if they make intra-Community acquisitions, in accordance with Art. 126 para. (6). Our Romanian lawyers can provide more details.
Our law office can assist your company in obtaining the necessary documents requested for VAT registration Romania. Call us now for a free consultation.