Sinisa Mali: wages and pensions will increase!

Sinisa Mali, photo: Ministry of Finance

– All of the reform laws that parliamentarians are seizing provide a solid foundation for the progress of society, as they will have, for the end result, a further increase in investment activities, a reduction in unemployment and an improvement in the standard of living. – said Finance Minister Sinisa Mali, explaining all tax and financial laws to the National Assembly of Serbia.

The minister said the deputies had laws and decisions proposed by the Ministry of Finance and indicated that he expects an argumentative discussion during the continuation of the session.

The minister said that one of the most important proposals of the law on the use of public goods had been adopted by representatives of the economy.

Sinisa Mali, Photo: Alo! / Dejan Briza

According to him, the most important is that the rights of use of public property be prescribed by a single law. He added that the law would improve the transparency of the revenue system and ensure the predictability of the operating costs of the economy.

Mali indicated that the biofuel fee, the compulsory natural gas reserve fee, the fee for excessive use of the public highway, its part or purpose, and the fees for the use of biofuel, commercial facilities, authorized from public roads, are removed.

– As part of the protection and environmental improvement costs, the determination of this compensation is based on the ownership of real estate or rent, or on the use of real estate, which is currently determined by the area of ​​residence, ie the commercial area or the land, to carry out activities. – said Mali. He added that the amount of compensated compensation for changing the goal of forests and forest land from ten times to five times the base had also been reduced.

In acting amendments to the law on the profits tax, the minister said that the obligations of taxpayers would be reduced in the long run by changes in the method of calculation of amortization. In addition, one of the newspapers is the recognition of the right to a tax credit in the case of monetary investments in the increase of the fixed capital of the so-called "creation" of the company. There is also research and development cost recognition to motivate entrepreneurs to invest in research areas, with the ultimate goal being to create innovative products.

Another important systematic law – the bill to amend the law on property taxes provides for further harmonization of the application of tax regulations and the strengthening of legal certainty, as well as a more adequate taxation of property according to the economic power of taxpayers.

The main novelty is that tax measures discourage businesses from building without a permit and failing to meet construction deadlines.

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The minister said they were appearing before MPs and amendments to the personal income tax law. The changes go even further in suppressing the underground economy, mainly in the hotel industry.

According to him, the law also contemplates changing the tax treatment of the income of natural persons in the event of carrying out an out-of-court settlement between the bank and the borrower considered problematic. Namely, the tax is excluded from the income that a natural person derives from the write off of a part of the claim. A positive change is a tax exemption from a personal income tax based on solidarity assistance in the case of the birth of a child, up to the average salary per new child. born that the employee earns from the employer.

According to the Minister, in order to continue the reform of the tax administration, a new law on gambling is promulgated, which provides for the transfer of skills in the gambling of the tax administration to the & # 39; 39, administration of gambling, creating the Directorate of Gambling as an administrative body composition of the Ministry of Finance.

The amendments to the Law on Procedure and the Tax Administration are closely related to these changes. In particular, the fundamental motive for the adoption of this law is the removal of the provisions governing the competence of the tax administration in the field of gambling and the transfer of these skills to the administration of gambling, said the minister.

– With regard to the draft law on amendments to the law on public debt, the most important change is the definition of a new financial institution – the main broker, whose aim is to encourage the liquidity of the government securities market and mitigate the risk of refinancing the debt. – said the minister.

Sinisa Mali, photo: Tanjug / Filip Kraincanic

Mali explained that the reason for the adoption of the Customs Law was the need to comply with the new customs law of the European Union, as well as with the opening of Chapter 29 – Customs Union.

– In addition to the move to paperless trade and the electronic environment, it needs to simplify, modernize and streamline customs procedures in order to enhance legal certainty and make customs operations more efficient and responsive to current needs. The introduction of electronic communications between customs and the private sector is a key change in this law. – he said.

With regard to the proposal of the Customs Service Act, the Minister states that the adoption of this law is justified by the fact that since May 2010 in the Republic of Serbia, two laws bearing the same title have been applied. , whose members coincide, the matter. The adoption of this law establishes legal certainty, he explained.

According to him, the bill to amend the Tobacco Act aims to combat the illicit production and trade of tobacco and tobacco products.

The implementation of the amendments to this law will contribute to the establishment of more effective control of the tobacco and tobacco products market in order to maintain and increase budget revenues.

The minister said that the draft law on the Central Register of Compulsory Social Security will be discussed.

– The reasons that motivated the adoption of this law are the need to create a central database on taxpayers for social security contributions, employers and insured persons. The purpose of the law is to allow more effective control of the collection of compulsory social security contributions, to reduce administrative costs and to manage the social security system more effectively. – said Mali.

Republic Fund for Pension and Disability Insurance, Photo: Boško Karanović

The minister also mentioned amendments to the law on compulsory social insurance contributions, which had to be applied because of the payment of tax revenues related to work, by a reduction of the compulsory social security contribution rate. .

The minister also said that they were in the presence of deputies and amendments to the law on public property. By supplementing this law, it is possible for corporations created under the Innovation Act, one of the founders of RS, AP, JLS, to use and manage property. Real estate owned by the state, and that such real estate may be leased to companies created under the Innovation Act activities to support innovation activities by infrastructure.

Amendments to the Law on Return of Seized Property and Compensation were made taking into account the problems of determining the basis of compensation for individual cases and the total perception of the basis of compensation. It is necessary to redefine the deadline for determining the total amount of compensation, which can only be known after several decisions on the right to compensation in the refund procedure.

The deputies also include amendments to the law on the administrative expenses of the republics in order to harmonize them with the law on foreign exchange.

The deputies will also discuss the draft law on the granting of the guarantee of the Republic of Serbia under the loan agreement for the construction of a gas pipeline connecting the Republic of Bulgaria to the border with Hungary and the other neighboring countries of the Republic of Serbia.The Aleksandrovac – Kopaonik – Raska – Novi Pazar – Tutin Development Guarantee Bill (Phase II), on the draft law on the confirmation of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the construction of the Belgrade bypass, the Sava bridge near Ostružnica in Bubanj Potok. The Minister also introduced the bill on the confirmation of the annex of the financial services of the railway line Niš-Dimitovgrad with the European Investment Bank, as well as on the draft law on the confirmation of the Zemun technical and roaming project guarantee agreement, phase 2, with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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