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The members of the Association of Internet Workers presented to the Ministry of Finance applications with the help of which they would arrive at a solution for the employment situation of the “self-employed” and how to tax their work. The Tax Administration has recently sent them solutions and asked them to pay taxes during the last five years, so the amounts amount to several thousand euros. The first request of the workers on the Internet is to stop sending those solutions, and the other negotiations with the Government of Serbia.
In mid-October, the Tax Administration invited them to come and declare taxes on foreign salaries. They came, but in front of the door of the Ministry of Finance, and they ask that the process be stopped. They are not running away from taxes, but now they cannot pay the five-year amounts.
“Freelance is such a job, today the salary is one, tomorrow the other, and maybe it will not be. So in any case you have to keep all the salary for the dark days … You have to have a salary of at least 800, 900 euros “. so you can pay the tax that very few people have, ”says Nemanja Grujić, graphic designer.
The Tax Procedure Law, which also applies to this group of taxpayers, has existed since 2001. The state, as they claim, simply did not implement it.
“The tax administration stated that 99.7 percent of the people did not pay this tax in case you have a class of one hundred students, if 99 falls a year, who is to blame, is it the teacher or are the students to blame “asked the representative of the Association of Internet Workers Milan Pogačar.
Pogačar claims that the individuals offered to pay the taxes themselves, but the response from the Tax Office was: we don’t know how to collect that. Now that you have found out, you have noticed omissions and miscalculated interest rates.
“It often happened that people received money in dollars and the minutes said the euro, so we came to the conclusion that most likely they work according to some model and do not take into account any data that taxpayers have presented in their comments, “said attorney Katarina Pavlovic. .
Pending a response to the complaints and requests they presented, they propose a change to the Labor Law. They say that the “self-employed” should find themselves in it as workers. They also advocate that there be a non-taxable part in the amount of the consumer basket.
“The other thing is to reduce the tax base, that is, taxes and contributions, and do it according to the progressive taxation model,” adds Pogačar.
The Center for Public Policy Research made similar proposals. They are telling the tax administration to consider wage ratings and to charge higher earning workers under the new system.
“And for these people who earned less, now it can be 500, 600 euros gross, to really get rid of the debt. That was an example in Bosnia, which is actually very close to us,” said Branka Andjelkovic from the Center for Public Research. . politics.
Another possible solution, Andjelkovic adds, is for the foreign wage tax to be around four or five percent.
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