In Croatia, you often hear of people trying to avoid paying a tax or two, even going as far as to entirely fake business expenses. The list goes on, these things tend to happen everywhere and owing to Croatia’s typically draconian and outdated policies when it comes to taxation and carrying out business, most people tend not to bat an eyelid.
Of course, there are limits with that, as there are with almost everything. Being a Korean citizen on a short stay taking up illegal work as a tour guide in Rovinj is one of them!
As Glas Istre/Nina Orlovic Radic writes on the 11th of October, 2019, a Korean citizen who was ”working” as a tourist guide was leading tourists around the popular Istrian city of Rovinj received a fine of 10,000 kuna and expulsion from the Republic of Croatia for a period of three months because he carried out this activity without all of the necessary permits.
The Korean man was caught in an action undertaken by the State Inspectorate to control the activities of tourist guides. In addition to the hefty fine and expulsion from the country, he also received a decision on the prohibition of performing activities in the Republic of Croatia. He was initially discovered by inspectors near the famous St. Euphemia’s Church. He didn’t have a license for the conduction of the job a tourist guide in Istria County.
The 49-year-old Korean citizen was issued a fine of 10,000 kuna in accordance with a violation of the Prohibition and Prevention of Unregistered Activity Act of the Republic of Croatia. In addition, due to the fact that he used his established residence in the country for illegal work, the Rovinj administrative police station terminated his short-term (kratkotrajni) stay, giving him a period of seven days to leave the country, they also issued an expulsion order from Croatia of a term of three months.
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