The Association of Workers on the Internet requested today to bring some kind of Lex specialis in order to get out of the current problems regarding the taxation of freelancers, as well as to change the Labor Law from which self-employment was eliminated in 2014, in order to better define the status of freelancers.
This was said by Katarina Pavlovic from the Association of Internet Workers during a webinar on how to use the potential of IT lump sums, freelancers and Internet workers.
She reiterated that these people want to pay taxes and contributions, but that this must be discussed, as well as that they have been waiting for those talks with the authorities for more than two months.
“We want to pay taxes and contributions, but only after our tax and labor status is regulated. This instillation of fear in the bones of many is inadmissible. Many freelancers who call us are in a state of despair,” she said, reports Tanjug.
She emphasized that the politicization of this issue will not be allowed, as well as tomorrow’s protests.
Representatives of the Association of Internet Workers, the Association of Flatbed and Entrepreneurs and the Society for Informatics of Serbia pointed out at the webinar that it would be good for the authorities to accept the conversation as soon as possible in order to reach a rational solution.
The representative of the Association of Lump sum Mladen Milosavljevic pointed out that the problem is wider than the issue of freelancers, since Serbia has an outdated tax system that prevents people from entering into business relations.
As it subsidizes foreign companies, the state should subsidize part of the taxes and contributions for freelancers as well, especially for those who, as language teachers, manage to earn 300 euros a month, he said.
Representatives of the Association of Informatics of Serbia supported, as they said, endangered colleagues and, in principle, their demands, Politika reports.
