“The issue of €30m blocked by the Special State Prosecutor’s Office as part of the investigation into Atlas Bank’s operations and e-commerce services is one of the priorities I have encountered and requires an urgent solution”, says the acting director of the Revenue Administration (UP) Aleksandar Damjanović in an interview for Dan. He points out that the existing legal framework can tax illegally acquired property, but that he still hopes for a new law on the taxation of illegal property, which will multiply the tax rates on that basis.
“At the end of 2019, the tax debt amounted to €378m, excluding the debt based on the frozen €30m in the case of e-commerce. Preliminary data indicate that tax debt rose to €460m last year. This growth corresponds to the decline in economic activity in the past year, which can only be a partial justification for the growth of tax debt. Debts of state bodies, unrealized diversions and accrued interest in bankruptcy proceedings are excluded from this debt, so it can be said that this is the so-called net tax debt within which there must be found space for the highest possible collection”, Mr Damjanović explains.
