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Developers, graphic designers, foreign language teachers, but also YouTubers and popular influencers who live in Serbia, work for foreign companies and do not have registered offices in our country, received a warning from the Tax Administration to pay income tax. If they don’t declare themselves, the taxpayers will find a way to find and punish them.
This is the essence of the declaration of the Tax Administration, which establishes that natural persons who obtain income from abroad, but have not settled all the obligations related to the payment of taxes and contributions to salaries, must settle their obligations before starting. tax control or submit a request for diligence due to misconduct. . The Tax Administration, on the basis of the data on payments from abroad and its comparison with the tax returns filed on taxes calculated and paid and contributions to the earnings of individuals, found a major non-compliance with tax regulations and identified those people, according to the statement, without giving details on how much. the number of cases is one word.
According to the Tax Administration, these revenues are made on the basis of the provision of various types of services, and most of the time it involves software development, translation, teaching of foreign languages, promotions, graphic design …
Defaults have also been found in those who earn income from social networks, such as YouTubers, influencers (people who, thanks to a large number of followers on the YouTube channel or social networks such as Instagram and Facebook, earn by subscribing to their channel or have contracts with some companies to advertise their brands and earn monthly income from that), then with online gambling, as well as with people who have rented their own property for up to 30 days, the so-called flat per day.
The Tax Administration did not respond to “Politika” questions about the number of so-called freelancers who work for foreign employers and do not pay taxes, as well as the loss for that. Goran Radosavljević, professor at the FEFA faculty, explains that in our country income tax is paid after deduction. This means that the employer has the obligation to deduct taxes and contributions from gross wages and pay them to the state. If someone works for an employer who does not have a registered office in Serbia, that person has the obligation to pay taxes and contributions for himself within 30 days after receiving the salary. If a YouTuber or someone who deals with Internet sales selects a site in the Cayman Islands and receives money through that YouTube channel, and the Tax Administration determines that they have cash inflows from abroad, they are subject to withholding tax . The most common tax burden that follows is approximately 46 percent: 20 percent tax and 26 percent contribution, but for some type of contract the base is lower, so the amount of taxes is less.
– With the development of e-commerce, the number of jobs that can be done from Serbia abroad is increasing. We don’t know how much there is, but the tax authorities saw that something was happening. The tax administration can access this information through banks and will probably do so at some point. This announcement looks like a warning: pay attention, we are going to take control, so that it does not happen that we did not tell you – says Radosavljević, who suspects that anyone pays that tax.
Our interlocutor says that it can be controlled because the money goes through official banking channels. When someone receives 3,000 euros in their account every month, the bank has to ask in a moment what it is. After all, you can see on what basis the money was paid and if it is classified as salary, the bank is obliged to report it to the Tax Administration. He explains that, on the other hand, the Tax Administration can ask the banks to examine all those who have monthly payments from abroad. The only question is how massive it should be for the Tax Administration to start dealing with it.
– We do not know what the intention of the Tax Administration is. All freelancers are absolute taxpayers and have to pay taxes. The task of the authorities is to find them and collect taxes – says Radosavljević.
If the taxpayer does not declare their income, and it is income of up to half a million dinars and the taxpayers discover that in the control, the taxpayer will be followed by a fault report, that is, a criminal report if the amount in question is higher to the aforementioned. Since December 2019, the self-employed in Serbia have the opportunity to define themselves according to the way they do business by paying taxes and contributions.
It is not known how much the state loses because it does not, since there is no precise data on the amount of salaries and the number of people who teach English classes in Chinese private schools through online platforms, how many engineers create software for US companies or services foreign companies.
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