During the Q&A session of 18 January 2020, initiated by specialists from the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Tourism, they answered a series of questions regarding the eligible expenditures under the financing measures for entrepreneurs, launched in the context of the COVID-pandemic. 19, as follows:
Beneficiaries of forms of support from external grants may use the allocations for:
- payment of taxes and fees to the state budget, including salary contributions, CAS, CASS, dividend tax, micro-enterprise income tax, profit tax. With regard to contributions due from PFA, those on behalf of PFA and not on CNP are eligible. Taxes and duties on the local budget and fines of any kind are not eligible;
- the rent for the registered office or the working point where the activity for which the financing was requested is carried out, based on the concluded contract;
- the purchase of software, licenses, or applications is eligible, and falls undercurrent and outstanding debts to suppliers or the purchase of equipment or technology necessary to carry out the activity;
- expenses with accounting services, classified as current and outstanding debts to suppliers necessary to carry out the activity;
- fixed and variable contributions to professional organizations are eligible if, based on their payment, the operating authorization is obtained, necessary to continue the activity;
- fuel costs for carriers, being considered raw material costs.
The specialists also clarify that the advance payments to the state budget cannot be considered eligible expenses, because in the category of eligible expenses are included only the debts to the state budget declared.
The notion of resumption of activity is a generic formulation and refers to the resumption of activity after the state of emergency, in the context of the pandemic. No documents or evidence of cessation of activity are required, and continued activity during the pandemic does not result in loss of eligibility.
When asked whether a company that has benefited from active support measures for employees and employers in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, regarding technical unemployment, can access financial support measures from non-reimbursable external funds for SMEs- The answer of the specialists was affirmative.