July 18 (SeeNews) - Romania's prime minister Mihai Tudose on Tuesday dismissed the head of the national fiscal authority ANAF, Bogdan Stan, the prime minister's office announced.
Tudose named Mirela Calugareanu, head of ANAF's general directorate for tax collection, to replace Stan at the helm of ANAF, the prime minister's office said in a statement.
Orders of Stan's dismissal and Calugareanu's appointment were published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday after Tudose signed them.
Stan's dismissal came after both former prime minister Sorin Grindeanu and Mihai Tudose publicly expressed dissatisfaction with ANAF's performance in tax collection.
In June, ANAF responded to the accusations of poor efficiency, saying that tax collection has increased 4.5% on the year in the first six months of 2017, reaching 101.6 billion lei ($26 billion/22 billion euro).
Bogdan Stan was appointed as head of ANAF in January this year after his predecessor Dragos Doros resigned.
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