Government Decision No. 602/2025 reflects the VAT rate increase effective 1 August 2025.

Romania has published Government Decision No. 602/2025 (GD No. 602/2025) in the Official Gazette No. 715 on 31 July 2025.

Government Decision No. 602/2025 amends GD No. 1/2016, which outlines the Application Norms of Law No. 227/2015 on the Fiscal Code. The amendment updates the VAT provisions to incorporate the increase in VAT rates effective from 1 August 2025.

Government Decision No. 602/2025 went into effect on 1 August 2025.

Earlier, Romania’s government unified reduced VAT rates of 5% and 9% into a single VAT rate of 11%, and the standard VAT rate has been increased from 19% to 21%, which went into effect on 1 August 2025.