The expectations are for normality to return. The program gives such hopes - it talks about returning to a maximum of 40% redistribution of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through the budget, preserving the tax and social security model, tax system and rates, which is very important. This is how Vasil Velev from the Association of Industrial Capital in Bulgaria (AIKB) commented on the program of "Progressive Bulgaria" in the program "Denyat ON AIR".
According to him, tax stability is an important advantage for attracting investments.
"The fiscal consolidation should be done through more effective and efficient spending of public resources, and not by increasing taxes to seek this budget consolidation", Velev told Bulgaria ON AIR.
When asked by how much the administration should be reduced, he replied that by a quarter, if it is reduced, no one except the administration itself will understand. Velev emphasized that thefts must be reduced.
"The most expensive construction we have is infrastructural, at the same time it turns out that the asphalt is thinner and deteriorates quickly. We have medicines paid for by the fund many times over the prices," he noted and added that private hospitals spend public resources of the Health Fund, adding that there are many opportunities for optimizing costs. "We need to limit waste and reduce the number of people employed in the budget sector, and untie their salaries from the average salary for the country. Social payments need to be untied from the minimum wage. The minimum wage needs to be untied from the average. The Covid supplement needs to be removed from pensions", Velev urged.
According to him, corruption must be limited at all levels.
According to him, economization of foreign policy is expected - not only the lifting of sanctions and revision of the green deal, but also talks on US tariffs.