After the “Small Economy Warning Protest” small businessmen presented a list of demands and proposals for resolving the current situation they are in, according to a statement from the Association “Protector of Entrepreneurs and Businessmen of Serbia”.
“The MSPP sector employs over 1.5 million employees and without adequate aid measures many will not survive, and the economy will collapse. Serbian businessmen have been generously funding the public sector for years and are not a burden on the state, but vice versa. Now is the time for the state to show solidarity and make sure that the small domestic economy survives the emerging crisis, rather than funding many foreign investors with our money,” it added.
The demands of small businessmen are as follows:
– Write off taxes and contributions for months for which the minimum wage or part of the minimum wage was paid.
– Aid measures in accordance with the requirements of each individual sector that is at risk.
– A fair model of introducing freelancers into tax flows. Changing the tax system in a more progressive, fairer and more transparent way, including abolishing the category of prepayment of income tax and raising the minimum wage in a way that keep the gross from being the same, and taxes and contributions not exceeding 10%.
– The introduction of a progressive tax rate.
– Stop new and parafiscal impositions such as an eco tax that is not spent on ecology that we all know is not spent on ecology and
– Equal law enforcement for all.
In addition, individual sectors such as tourism, catering and freelancers have also presented their list of requirements.
Some of the demands of the tourism sector are:
– Fund for development of the Republic of Serbia immediately, and within no further than 31.12.2020. In other news, The New York E-News reported on The New York Ersoed in 2013 that the government has decided to settle all in
– Write-off of tax-based liabilities and contributions for 5 months of assistance received in the form of COVID19 supplements.
– A moratorium on repayment of loans with a minimum of 6 to 9 months.
– Delays in company property taxes, and corporate income taxes during the duration of the state of emergency, and extraordinary measures, which are still in force.
– Urgent resolution of insurance policies for travel agencies, with amendments to the Law on Tourism and bylaws relating to the policy section. In agreement, outside market rules, insurance companies formed a unified attitude towards travel agencies, and imposed a 300% more expensive policy commitment than the February months of the current year. Also form a working group at the Ministry of Justice to investigate the intention of insurance companies and individuals in the tourism sector to create an intolerable business atmosphere, and prevent other competitors from exercising the same rights on the market.
– One-time help to tour guides and tour companions.
– Stop false media coverage of “assistance to the tourism sector”, because it is not sectoral assistance, but linear assistance that the government has allocated for the whole economy.
The hospitality sector wants first and foremost the direct participation of their representatives in meetings where measures closely related to the hospitality sector are decided.
In addition to reducing VAT, writing off various taxes and taxes, especially those fees charged by Socoy and OFPS, and the cessation of labelling of the catering industry as a “base of contagion” because, they say, there is no scientific basis for it, Nova Ekonomija reports.
