ZAGREB, June 19 (Hina) - Finance Minister Mato Crkvenac said on Wednesday the Finance Ministry would not give up its bill extending the base for the payment of compulsory pension and health insurance contributions.
ZAGREB, June 19 (Hina) - Finance Minister Mato Crkvenac said on
Wednesday the Finance Ministry would not give up its bill extending
the base for the payment of compulsory pension and health insurance
contributions. #L#
Addressing reporters after today's signing of a contract on a World
Bank donation to Croatia, Crkvenac said the ministry was
considering some serious objections to the bill, presented during
the first parliamentary reading. Should the bill not be forwarded
into further parliamentary procedure after all, other solutions
will be sought, without revising the budget, he said.
Commenting on government conclusions binding some ministries to
take concrete measures with regard to the findings of a State
Audit's privatisation report, Crkvenac said the ministry was
preparing a law on the implementation of the government
conclusions.
Under the conclusions, the Finance Ministry is obliged to determine
the system of taxation for individuals who did not buy real estate
in order to continue production and keep jobs, but in order to get
hold of property, and then stop the production and lay off workers.
The Ministry has also been entrusted with establishing which
property the individuals who participated in illegal privatisation
dealings had at the start of the privatisation process and what they
own today, as well as how they bought the new acquisitions.
No measures would be taken against them if the new acquisitions were
bought with reported and taxed income. However, if no taxes were
paid on the income, this means that the property was acquired
through tax fraud, and this will be sanctioned, the minister said.
These measures will not refer to all citizens, but only to those for
whom it has been established that they acquired wealth without
paying taxes, Crkvenac said.
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