The economy can expect help from the second half of February, and the citizens can expect a new payment in cash only in the second half of next year, judging by the words of President Aleksandar Vucic. For the third package of state aid in a row, more than a billion euros will be allocated from the state treasury in order for businessmen and citizens to overcome the problems of the Covid crisis, writes the Nova.rs portal.
Unlike the first package, when the state paid businessmen three minimum wages per employee, or the second, when those same workers were paid twice 60 percent of the minimum wage, this time the amount will allegedly be half of the minimum wage.
However, it is still unknown whether the employees in the companies will receive this assistance in two or three months.
In addition to the mentioned two, or three halves of the minimum wage, another half of the minimum wage was announced for the tourism sector, but also for auto carriers.
“Hoteliers, travel agencies, tourist guides, but also bus carriers that have suffered great losses, will receive sector support – an additional 50 percent of the minimum wage,” announced the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.
Vucic also announced the extension of the guarantee scheme for supporting the economy.
These are, in fact, cheaper loans, for the repayment of which the state guarantees up to 80 percent to the banks, and the risk for the remaining 20 percent is taken over by the banks.
So far, 1.5 billion euros have been used from the offer of these loans, out of the two billion euros that the state guaranteed.
Recently, Vucic, as a guest on Happy Television, stated that the offer of loans from the guarantee scheme should be additionally extended and increased by another 500 million euros.
Unlike in 2020, when all adult citizens in Serbia who applied were paid one hundred euros each, this time it will be a smaller amount, although it has not yet been confirmed how much it is.
The issue of a new tax moratorium has not yet been resolved.
“Once you get into it – double, triple, five-time… postponement of obligations, then the Tax Administration can no longer cope with all that. We have no decision on the moratorium on taxes,” said Vucic, Nova Ekonomija reports.
