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A sheaf of wheat ears tied with twine, next to an old office calculator with beige keys, on a wooden table in the morning light.
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2027 fiscal policy adopted: an Ungheni employee keeps 1,238 lei a year, and cereals stay at 8% VAT until 2028

On 22 October Parliament adopted the package of fiscal and customs policies for 2027. The personal exemption rises from 29,700 to 40,020 lei a year, and the exemption for children from 9,900 to 11,040 lei. At the 12% rate, an employee entitled to the personal exemption pays about 1,238 lei less tax a year. Ungheni district had 15,935 employees at the end of 2025, so the effect of the personal exemption across the district comes to at most 19.7 million lei a year. Compared with the August draft, cereals and oilseeds stay at 8% VAT until 31 December 2027, while livestock farming, crop farming and horticulture move to 12%.

Ion Calmis·22 October 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Illustration: a line of tractors parked on a road near a border crossing, during a farmers' protest.
NATIONAL

At Sculeni, the farmers' protest blocked the border crossing on 25 June, reopened only toward evening

The farmers' protest against the rise in agricultural VAT reached the border of Ungheni district on 25 June: farm machinery blocked access to the Sculeni border crossing, along with three other customs points and several national roads. According to the Border Police, traffic at Sculeni was restored only around 6 p.m. It is the official-source confirmation of what we had flagged as possible: the protest touched Ungheni directly.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A line of tractors and a combine harvester parked along the shoulder of a national road next to a field of ripe wheat, in summer, a rural landscape in the Republic of Moldova.
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Farmers roll out the tractors tomorrow over an 8% VAT: a Valea Mare grower says the jump to 20% «will be a big minus»

The “Forța Fermierilor” (Farmers' Force) association has called a nationwide protest for Wednesday, 24 June, with agricultural machinery on the country's roads, after talks with the Finance Ministry hit a dead end. The stake: the government wants to raise farm VAT from 8% to 20% starting 1 October. It sounds like a budget line — until a farmer from Valea Mare, Ungheni district, shows what it does to 2,000 hectares of grain. The exact protest locations had not yet been announced; that it would also reach Ungheni district we could not confirm at a primary source.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE