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Healthcare:PRIMER: Double fiscal taxes, cause disappearance of Romanian made medicines
PRIMER (Organization of Industrial Medicine Manufacturers in Romania) warn that double fiscal taxes applied as of 2009 is the only cause of disappearance of medicines produced in Romania. Of the 1,000 medicines to which double taxes have been applied and which cost less than 25 lei in pharmacies and hospitals, less than 200 are not profitable because of over taxation, says Dragos Damian, PRIMER manager.
PRIMER warn that Romanian medicine factories have been paying besides 16% tax on profit, another tax on business figure, under the form of clawback, which has exceeded the value of tax on profit since 2015.
According to Damian, the only real solution to stop the disappearance of cheap medicines is exempting drugs that cost less than 25 lei from the payment of clawback, to allow patients’ access to Romanian made medicines.
PRIMER includes 16 Romanian medicine factories: Ac Helcor, Antibiotice, B,Braun, Bio-Eel, Biofarm, Gedeon Richter, Labormed Allvogen, Laropharm, Magistra CC, Polisano Pharmaceuticals, Ropharma, Santa Sa, Slavia Pharm, Zentiva, Terpia-Sun Pharma, Vim Spectrum.