Moldova IT Park — Chisinau's Flat-Tax 'Virtual Park' Passes $1 Billion in Resident-Company Turnover

Moldova IT Park opened in Chisinau in 2018 as, according to its own officials, Europe's first 'virtual' or 'e-Park': resident companies do not need a physical address inside a fenced zone, and instead qualify by registering as IT-sector businesses. In exchange, they pay a single flat tax of 7% of monthly turnover, which replaces corporate income tax, all employer and employee payroll taxes, and local property and road taxes combined.

The regulatory model was built with support from PwC, the World Bank and USAID Moldova working with Moldova's Ministry of ICT, and the tax regime is guaranteed by law to remain unchanged through 2037.

Resident companies grew from an initial cohort in 2018 to 2,725 companies from 44 countries by 2025 (571 of them added that year alone), employing about 25,000 people at an average monthly salary of roughly 50,000 lei (about €2,500). Resident-company turnover passed $1 billion (18.9 billion lei) in 2025, up 24.3% on 2024, with exports of 16.37 billion lei making up 88.5% of eligible sales.

The turnover, headcount and export figures are corroborated across two independent outlets (Moldova's state press agency and the EU4Digital programme) and are broadly consistent with earlier professional-services reporting on the tax regime. No independent fiscal study comparing foregone standard tax revenue against the programme's net public benefit was identified, so the figures should be read as gross growth indicators rather than a full cost-benefit evaluation.