ANAF's 2026 guide settles what Romania withholds from a poker win — and the poker carve-out is the part that matters
Romania's tax authority has published a guide to the taxation of gambling income, dated 25 September 2026, that sets out the withholding brackets of Art. 110 of the Fiscal Code as amended by Law 141/2025. The general scale is 4% on a gross payment up to RON 10,000, RON 400 plus 20% on the slice above that to RON 66,750, and RON 11,750 plus 40% above RON 66,750. For casinos, poker clubs, slot machines and lotteries the guide applies a separate test with the same arithmetic result: nothing is withheld on winnings up to RON 66,750 per payment, and 40% applies only to the excess. Two details decide what a player keeps. The threshold is checked at each payment rather than summed across the year, so several payments below it each pass untaxed; and for online play the tax is withheld on each transfer out of the gaming account to a bank account, which means the size of each withdrawal, not the size of each individual cash, is what the bracket is applied to. The tax is final once withheld, and