ZAGREB, January 3, 2019 – Croatian Employers’ Association (HUP) director general Davor Majetić commended on Thursday an action plan to ease the administrative burden on businesses the government endorsed today, saying it was important not to stop relieving the business sector.
“We commend the action plan to relieve businesses which the government presented today and which plans savings in excess of 600 million kuna,” Majetić told Hina. This is very important “because this 600 million kuna will stay in the hands of employers who will be able to invest it and increase workers’ salaries.”
He underlined the simplification of procedures, saying they were more difficult to gauge financially but were a big expense for employers. Their simplification reduces the time employers must spend to meet their obligations to the government, which is especially important for small and medium-sized businesses which have few resources and to which every time-saving measure is very important, he said.
Majetić said it was important that the alleviation of the burden did not stop, calling for continuing to examine all levies and procedures that businesses encountered every day. It is also necessary to adopt tools for the control of the introduction of any new levy or procedure that could cause employers new problems, he added.
“It’s necessary to introduce more serious control so that the number of new taxes for citizens or employers doesn’t get out of hand again.”
The Croatian Chamber of Commerce also welcomed the government’s action plan, saying it expected it to be carried out as quickly and completely as possible.
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