BRATISLAVA, March 22, (WEBNOVINY)- MPs of the Civic Conservative Party (OKS) who are members of the MOST-HID deputy caucus insist that the prepared tax and payroll levy reform cannot be implemented to the detriment of self-employed persons and contract agents. OKS Deputy Chairman Ondrej Dostal told journalists on Tuesday that also the party leadership held at the week’s beginning supported this stance of OKS deputies. “We insist on this position,” stated Dostal.
OKS supports changes, which are to simplify and curb the administrative burden. The party however is against offsetting shortfalls in revenues of public budgets at expense of the self-employed and contract agents. OKS is concerned that higher tax and patrol levy burden might deteriorate the business environment, increase unemployment and support illegal work.
OKS suggests that the Finance Ministry could compensate the shortfall in state revenues following the reform of payroll levies by savings in the public finance sector. One of the OKS suggestions is to increase revenues of the state budget by introduction of fees for extending mobile operator’s licenses, the measure, which the party wants to push through already at the ongoing parliamentary session.
The OKS introduced at the news conference ten draft measures tailored to cut tax and payroll levies. It proposes to introduce flexible write-offs of investment property, return flat deductible expenditures for craftsmen to the original level of 60 percent and scrap the duty to register use of a business car for the self-employed.
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