Starting with the first days of the year 1990, there were created groups of interests specialized in contraband operations, both for exportation and for importation, in operations of speculation with scarce products, in performing some services of transport-taxi, public alimentation, etc. There were the first component elements of the black economy that appeared and developed in Romania, the incomes of which were important in most cases and constituted the necessary capital for initiation in legal organized businesses. Among the component elements of black economy, the most spread in our country were the activities performed without registering, tax dodging and black labour.

fiscal fraud, black labour, formal sector, informal sector