The Deputy Mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesić, stated today that there will be no increase in the property tax in 2022, and explained that the law defines that the tax follows the value of the real estate price.
Vesić stated that as those prices grow on the territory of Belgrade, it means that the economy is developing.
“However, the price is not growing everywhere and it is not growing everywhere equally, but on average it is about six percent on the territory of the city for 2021. Accordingly, the tax should increase that much. Regardless of that, we made the decision to introduce an additional criterion due to the pandemic and everything that will happen next year, and that is that no one will be able to have a higher property tax than he had this year,” Vesić said.
That, he says, is what the City additionally gives to the citizens, adding that in 2022, no one will pay a higher tax than they paid this year, and some will pay a lower tax, such as zones where the prices per square meter have been reduced.
According to him, when you look at the budget for 2022, it has about six million euros for taxes, which means that there are more newly built apartments, so there is a larger coverage of people who pay taxes.
Speaking about the budget of the City for the next year, Vesić pointed out that as of yesterday, about 2,900 proposals of citizens, institutions, associations for the use of the city budget were received.
Most proposals are for arranging parks, playgrounds, reconstruction of streets, stated Vesić, and added that there are proposals that the City has already foreseen, as well as some that are not for the City, and they will be sent to the competent institutions.
“When we finish the public debate on December 8, and all citizens can give their proposals on the website of the City of Belgrade, we will consider all proposals and we will answer everyone if their proposal is accepted. Last year, we accepted almost a third of the proposals of more than 10,000. We accept everything we can and create a budget together,” Vesić emphasized.
When it comes to the Decision on naming streets, as well as the Decision on naming the coast in the municipality of New Belgrade, Vesić said that President Aleksandar Vučić proposed that the left bank of the Sava from Branko’s bridge to Gazela be named “Coast of Jasenovac victims”.
Until now, Belgrade has not had the characteristics of the Jasenovac victims, which, as he stated, is incredible and expressed satisfaction that “this government has the strength to talk openly about it.”
“The Old Fair is also being arranged, which will become a memorial center, and it is natural that the coast that passes by the Old Fair bears the name of the victims of Jasenovac,” said Vesić.
According to him, the names of some streets, whose names have nothing to do with Serbia, have changed.
The deputy mayor also referred to the project for the construction of the Belgrade metro and said that the first line will be completed in 2028, and the second in 2030.
“At the same time, we are working on the expansion of the BG train from the first two subway lines. When all that is over, we will have 223 kilometers of BG trains, which means that we will build a new line from Zemun to Surcin, include the national stadium, Nikola Tesla Airport, the center of Surcin and Obrenovac, but we will expand the capacity of BG trains to Mladenovac and Lazarevac. We will include Sopot and Barajevo, expand from Ovča to Pancevo. Instead of the current 104 departures a day, we will have 500,” said Vesić.
He said that at the session of the City Assembly, a decision was made to install mobile toilets at taxi stations, ie rooms where taxi drivers could drink coffee and generally function normally.
“However, it is not possible to completely arrange all the stops in that way, such as Terazije or Trg republike, but it can be done at 90% of taxi stations. We will do that on the turnovers of our city transport, where we should enable drivers to have a place to rest,” said Vesić.
When it comes to tomorrow’s session of the Crisis Staff, Vesić said that Belgrade would be against any new measure which means further closure of the economy.
“We have to find a measure between the economy working, I also think that schools have to work,” said Vesić, adding that a new vaccination center will open tomorrow at Ikea.
Speaking about the New Year’s celebration in Belgrade, Vesić said that it was organized in the open.
“We will have a great program on the plateau in front of the National Assembly, and all the measures that will be in force at that time will be respected,” said Vesić, Nova reports.
