Today, an informal group of subagents – intermediary travel agencies, on behalf of tourist workers and guides, again appealed to the Ministry of Finance of Serbia to write off their taxes and contributions for the months in which the minimum was paid to the entire economy, as well as to approve subsidies. They claim that they are most affected by the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.
“Travel agencies that have been bloodily fighting for 11 months to save at least one job, are being closed by the state with a levy in the form of taxes and contributions,” the subagent said in a statement.
It was pointed out that small travel agencies will not survive without additional assistance measures and that they should not be part of the same package with businessmen who did the same, with smaller losses, or even better during the pandemic.
It was also requested that the resolution of the requests for loans from the Development Fund be accelerated, because most agencies based their survival on that very measure.
“The whole situation with an uncertain epidemiological picture is further aggravated by the uncertainty in approving these funds, which should serve for liquidity, ie overcoming difficulties until the conditions for continuing business are met,” the subagents stated.
They added that help for tourist guides is necessary because some of them have not had income for more than a year, N1 reports.
