ZAGREB, Feb 1 (Hina) - The Croatian Finance Ministry's Tax Administration will block the account of the Croatian Printing House if the company does not pay its VAT debts amounting to more than US$154 million, the company's director,
Goran Maric, told Hina on Monday. General illiquidity and publishers' debts caused the printing house great difficulties. Due to the fact that publishers did not pay its debts to the company, the printing house was forces to raise short-term loans from banks with high, unfavourable interest rates which, according to Maric, disrupted production. The Croatian Printing House has not yet felt that the crisis of Croatia's largest distribution company "Tisak" has been solved, as there are no changes in the payment of debts, Maric said. "Tisak" drove many publishers into great financial difficulties with not paying for sold news papers, and in turn they could not pay for the printing s
ZAGREB, Feb 1 (Hina) - The Croatian Finance Ministry's Tax
Administration will block the account of the Croatian Printing
House if the company does not pay its VAT debts amounting to more
than US$154 million, the company's director, Goran Maric, told Hina
on Monday.
General illiquidity and publishers' debts caused the printing
house great difficulties.
Due to the fact that publishers did not pay its debts to the company,
the printing house was forces to raise short-term loans from banks
with high, unfavourable interest rates which, according to Maric,
disrupted production.
The Croatian Printing House has not yet felt that the crisis of
Croatia's largest distribution company "Tisak" has been solved, as
there are no changes in the payment of debts, Maric said.
"Tisak" drove many publishers into great financial difficulties
with not paying for sold news papers, and in turn they could not pay
for the printing services.
The printing house still functions, though, thanks to "Narodne
novine" and the Defence Ministry which were the only ones to have
paid their debts in full.
Because of unpaid debts, the printing house has ceased to print the
daily "Slobodna Dalmacija", the "Sisacki tjednik", "Medjimurski
tjednik" and "Zeleni oglasnik" weeklies.
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