Unions to fight higher taxes with protests
The Association of Independent Unions of Serbia (SSSS) says it will organize demonstrations if the government goes ahead and introduces new taxes.
Saturday, 28.03.2009.
18:32
The Association of Independent Unions of Serbia (SSSS) says it will organize demonstrations if the government goes ahead and introduces new taxes. A statement issued in Belgrade today said that the government's announcement that it would raise income taxes violated the Agreement on Development of Social Dialogue, which envisages that problems be solved through dialogue. Unions to fight higher taxes with protests This time, the decision to hike taxes was made without prior consultations with the unions and other social partners, the statement said, and added that such a move would shift the burden of the crisis to those gainfully employed and the citizens. The unions, but also the Association of Taxpayers, is asking the state to look at the issue of salaries in public companies and the huge administration, instead of "only thinking how to fill the budget with the citizens' money". Workers are also warning that the government has backtracked on its promise to look out for the interests of those most vulnerable. Serbians for the most part agree that saving is necessary in a time of crisis, but do not want it to be done exclusively at their expense. The warnings coming from the state, and establishment of the so-called SOS stores – where those making less that EUR 150 per month can buy basic goods at discount prices – are described by the unions as the government's perfidious game. "If the measures remain such as they are, there will certainly be protests. The Association of Independent Unions of Serbia will call on other unions as well, because this is something that must unite us all in expressing our dissatisfaction with the fact that those who earn the least will be taxed the most," SSSS President Ljubisav Orbovic said. Meanwhile, the Association of Taxpayers is wondering where EUR 2.5bn, made through privatizations, has disappeared, and claim that it is the internal rather than the global crisis that is threatening Serbia. "The government is demonstrating its ineptitude with these measures, and instead of turning to its own spending and thinking about a review of the budget, it is endangering the poor," the association's president, Dragutin Zagorac, said this Saturday.
Unions to fight higher taxes with protests
This time, the decision to hike taxes was made without prior consultations with the unions and other social partners, the statement said, and added that such a move would shift the burden of the crisis to those gainfully employed and the citizens.The unions, but also the Association of Taxpayers, is asking the state to look at the issue of salaries in public companies and the huge administration, instead of "only thinking how to fill the budget with the citizens' money".
Workers are also warning that the government has backtracked on its promise to look out for the interests of those most vulnerable. Serbians for the most part agree that saving is necessary in a time of crisis, but do not want it to be done exclusively at their expense.
The warnings coming from the state, and establishment of the so-called SOS stores – where those making less that EUR 150 per month can buy basic goods at discount prices – are described by the unions as the government's perfidious game.
"If the measures remain such as they are, there will certainly be protests. The Association of Independent Unions of Serbia will call on other unions as well, because this is something that must unite us all in expressing our dissatisfaction with the fact that those who earn the least will be taxed the most," SSSS President Ljubisav Orbović said.
Meanwhile, the Association of Taxpayers is wondering where EUR 2.5bn, made through privatizations, has disappeared, and claim that it is the internal rather than the global crisis that is threatening Serbia.
"The government is demonstrating its ineptitude with these measures, and instead of turning to its own spending and thinking about a review of the budget, it is endangering the poor," the association's president, Dragutin Zagorac, said this Saturday.
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