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Finance Minister Siniša Mali was quite clear: the state came out “with a huge package of measures” to help the economy during the epidemic, and there will be no “further prolongation of tax payments.”
This is your response to the request of various associations of vulnerable small and medium-sized enterprises to cancel taxes and contributions for the months for which all or part of the minimum wage was paid. By the way, at the end of December, three months expire, during which the employers who used state aid, and it is about 235,000 companies and more than one million workers, could not lay off more than ten percent of the employees. Starting on January 4, they will receive taxes and contributions on the minimums paid by the state from April to July. The bill for a hairdresser that received help during the state of emergency, but did not work, for example for two months, looks like this: the state paid 30,000 dinars for four employees, which is 240,000 dinars for two months. The salon owner is required to pay 62 percent of taxes and contributions or 148,800 dinars for that amount.
In addition, the owner of the barber shop had other expenses, such as a monthly rent of 36,000 dinars, 17 percent of the rent and utility tax, which is 78,120 dinars on a monthly basis, or 156,420 dinars in two months. When everything is added up, the owner of the hairdresser will cost around 305,000 dinars for two months of quarantine, which he spent without working. And that is now coming to fruition.
Various promises and announcements come from statesmen, further confusing businessmen. When the pressure to cancel their payroll taxes began, Economy Minister Andjelka Atanaskovic said that at the beginning of the year the first three months were difficult as standard, and that in this situation, when income is still low, it will be difficult. for companies to liquidate current and previously delayed. Payments.
Andjelka Atanaskovic announced the possibility of extending the deadline for reconciliation until June next year instead of early January. However, judging from the statement of the Minister of Finance, when there is a cash register, that will be unlikely.
After all, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was explicitly against the change in fiscal policy, saying it was more about one-time payments, even if they were small. So far, the state has helped the economy and the population with about six billion euros, which is 12.7 percent of GDP. Travel agencies, caterers and hoteliers can expect to receive the minimum wage this month and others the next. According to him, a change in tax and fiscal policy can bring additional uncertainty and destroy the country, and the goal is for the economic situation to be stable.
However, vulnerable businessmen demand a change in the tax system and a transition towards a progressive, fairer and more transparent way, including the abolition of the income tax advance category and the increase of the minimum so that the gross is maintained the same, and taxes and contributions do not exceed ten percent. They also propose the introduction of a progressive tax rate, but also a fair model for the introduction of the self-employed in fiscal flows. They not only focused on tax reform, but also demanded that the introduction of new and parafiscal taxes, such as the eco-tax, be stopped.
Aleksandar Senicic, director of the Association of Serbian Travel Agencies, said yesterday that most travel agencies will not accept one-time assistance in the form of minimum wage because it only increases the costs of the company and is conditioned by the ban on firing employees. . He told the Beta agency that until a few days ago there was a stagnation in the Development Fund, and that now five or six credit applications have been approved at the same time, which is not enough because 300 agencies have applied for loans, which means that the approval rate takes a few years for the agencies to obtain a liquidity loan.
The Kovid Application Development Fund will receive loans until December 10 and has so far approved 195 loan applications for a total amount of 968.6 million dinars.
53 liquidity loans were approved for a total amount of 253.4 million dinars to companies engaged in tourism, catering and passenger traffic.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) predicts that the world economy will not reach the level it was before the Kovid pandemic by the end of 2021, noting that countries are recovering, but at different speeds depending on the region. . The OECD report, released a few days ago, praises a series of economic rescue packages that countries, often with the help of central banks, have managed to save their national economies from the worst consequences.
It is now critical that those with political responsibility continue to provide such assistance to ensure the survival of related industries, businesses and jobs. The lesson we’ve learned in recent months is that these measures are appropriate. The report explicitly warns that aid measures should not be suspended too soon.
Freelancers to pay taxes, then speak
Finance Minister Siniša Mali said he had received requests for the “Do not destroy the self-employed” initiative, noting that his proposals could be discussed over the next year, when a new set of laws on property tax is being prepared. income of individuals. Until then, the minister says, he does not want to argue with anyone through the media and the Internet about “whether to pay taxes.”
After the announcement of the tax collection for the self-employed, the collection of petitions began within the initiative “Do not destroy the self-employed”, as some self-employed claimed that up to 80 percent of their income would be taken away by the collection of taxes. . They demanded that their tax be rescheduled and that a different tax system be introduced for the future.
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