Romanian tax agency ANAF targets people with income from Booking, Airbnb

Romania’s anti-fraud agency ANAF will look into roughly 23,000 individuals who have earned income from renting properties for tourism purposes through online platforms such as Booking.com and Airbnb, according to finance minister Tanczos Barna.

Individuals identified in this situation will receive compliance notifications, and anti-fraud inspectors will initiate audits where necessary. 

While obtaining such information from these platforms was previously a slow process for ANAF, a European directive now provides the necessary tools for easier access.

Priority for inspections will be given to cases with the highest undeclared amounts, where the tax loss to the state is most significant. A few hundred individuals have been found to have undeclared earnings exceeding RON 100,000 from short-term rentals on such platforms. 

“The directive requiring the declaration of sales helps us as well, and ANAF has already begun, with specialized teams, to identify not only transactions on…