ZAGREB: FIRST RESULTS OF INDIRECT TAX SUPERVISION

ZAGREB, April 29 (Hina) - Indirect tax supervision, i.e. the comparison of acquired property and income in a certain period, has so far included 568 physical persons and the Tax Administration has established a tax base amounting to 10.16 million kuna. Those persons should pay taxes in the amount of 3.5 million kuna, read data of the Tax Administration presented to reporters in the Finance Ministry on Tuesday. #L# Of the 3.5 million kuna that taxpayers need to pay almost no payments have been made to date. A small amount has been paid in Varazdin, Tax Administration officials say. These figures are included in preliminary reports on indirect tax supervision which was launched on February 6 and refer to inspections carried out by the end of this March. Indirect tax supervision means the comparison of the acquired property (real estate such as apartments, houses, land; moveables such as cars, yachts, airplanes, as well as money, securities, ownership shares) and reported income (from dependent and independent work, property, property rights, investment and insurance income). The basic principle tax collectors were governed by in indirect tax supervision were the most obvious examples of discrepancies in acquired property and reported income, the head of the Tax Administration, Milan Trbojevic, said. This, for example, refers to tax payers who reported an income of 100,000 kuna and bought a piece of real estate worth seven million kuna, Trbojevic said. Finance Minister Mato Crkvenac said that the Tax Administration would continue to implement indirect supervision and stressed its importance for social justice. (hina) it sb