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The workers’ protest on the Internet ended tonight with the message “Tax yes, robbery no”.
Photo: Beta / Luka Filipović“We do not give the years of our work in which we fight alone, they seek a tribute,” said the president of that association, Miran Pogačar.
He told those gathered that his strength was in “solidarity and unity”, and said that people from numerous cities in Serbia attended today’s meeting.
A conversation is scheduled for Monday between the representatives of that association and the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, the Minister of Finance, Siniša Mali, and the Director of the Tax Administration, Dragan Marković, said Pogačar.
“During the protest, the chief of the cabinet called me and told me that we would sit at the negotiating table with them,” Pogacar said in front of the Serbian Parliament House, where a protest rally was organized.
Pogačar told those gathered in front of the Serbian government building in Belgrade, who arrived in a protest procession from a rally in front of the Assembly, to report to the government on Monday, when negotiations between the authorities and the “self-employed” begin. about your taxes.
“Show up if you want to see how many of us there are. If they don’t accept our applications, we will take to the streets again,” Pogacar said.
He “told the Government and (Serbian President Aleksandar) Vucic that the ‘self-employed’ are not afraid of them”, because “this is our country and we will stay in it, and they can leave.”
As he evaluated, “this government protects those who owe millions and wants to steal from common people,” to which the assembled continued chanting “Thieves, thieves!”
“Message to Serbia: Everyone on the street!” Pogačar said.
“Freelancer Nemanja” – as introduced, said that “this is the largest meeting of ‘freelancers’ in the history of Serbia”.
“They attacked us and made us a community,” he said.
As he emphasized, “the myth is that it is easy to make money online, but you have to have the courage and the ability to fight for your place in the market that is the whole world.”
“We fight for our existence,” Nemanja said.
Let us remind you that thousands of freelancers and Internet workers gathered today in front of the Serbian Assembly in Belgrade to protest against the decision of the Tax Administration to retroactively tax their income that they earned in the previous five years.
The protest was organized under the slogan “Stop Internet Workers Theft”, organized by the Internet Workers Association, and those gathered wore masks.
As a key request that they indicated within the invitation on social networks, the suspension of payment and negotiations with workers in this branch of the economy stand out.
“Now they remind us all when they need to spend money on the construction of stadiums, making logos of public companies, while forgiving the debts of the biggest debtors,” reads the invitation within the Facebook event.
Internet workers were organized in an informal group in October 2020, when the Tax Administration sent more than 2,000 “requests for control”, that is, solutions with amounts and interests that they are obliged to pay within taxes and contributions.
You can see how the protest was on the Facebook page of the Danas newspaper.
“Taxes must be paid, but only after the adoption of a new law that will regulate our state,” said Miran Pogacar, representative of the Online Workers Association.
According to him, the retroactive payment of the multi-year tax, of which they were not even informed before, but now the government asks them to do so, is a “state theft”.
Some of those who were at the protest today carried banners with the inscriptions “My dad is not a criminal”, “First the law, then taxes”, “They lack 80 percent of the budget, leave (Siniša) Mali”, and some older people carried banners “Retirees are with self-employed.”
There was a larger “Tax Yes, Theft No” banner on the truck with the sound system.
In the truck, two young men were riding plastic inflatable tigers under the banners “The economic tiger does not eat its children” and “If we go, you will ride donkeys.”
The traffic in front of the Assembly stopped because the space was filled by the assembled.
Those gathered paid tribute to Oliver Ivanović and the doctors who died as a result of the corona virus.
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