The public policy tool of taxation may generate discouraging effects upon the economic agents – consumers or producers – but also could be used as incentives. High environmental taxation could generate crowding effect in terms of responsibility. Sometimes a very sophisticated system of...

Our paper’s aim is to review the main fiscal and budgetary measures taken by the Romanian government in the pre EU era and its effects. Many of them were imposed by the European aquis, but other was just proper for the economic national and international context.