Economic expansion remains the aim.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 8th of March, 2018, various examinations for tourism workers will be abolished, and the cancellation of membership fees for the IT sector and other activities that are not closely related to tourism are planned.
At its session on Thursday, the government adopted an extensive action plan for the administrative disbursement of the economy in 2018, and as Deputy Prime Minister Martina Dalić pointed out, the action plan contains 98 measures that will reduce the costs entrepreneurs are burdened with by 625.9 million kuna.
According to Deputy PM Martina Dalić, the Ministry of Economy has established a system and methodology for the measuring of regulatory costs with a view to their overall systematic reduction. An overall measurement found that there are 570 different regulations that have an effect on economic entities and contained 1,800 different administrative obligations for the economy.
Over the past year, an analysis of 200 regulations has been carried out, in which the existence of 600 different obligations, calculated and estimated to create a regulatory cost of around 5.1 billion kuna, were established.
“The administrative action plan for this year contains 98 different measures, which will reduce the total cost of administrative burden by 12 percent, or 625.9 million kuna,” stated Dalić. She added that this action plan is the second of its kind in the series, as the implementation of the first action plan, adopted by the Government at the beginning of last year, has now been completed, and its full implementation is expected in the coming few months.
By adopting this new plan, bureaucratic costs will continue to be reduced, Dalić said.
The plan introduces measures that include a concrete abolition of the obligation to maintain a range of records, registers from the jurisdiction of the tax and customs administrations, which brings simpler and cheaper business for more than 90,000 business entities.
The largest savings in the action plan are foreseen in the area of Tax Administration in the Ministry of Finance, in the amount of 577 million kuna, and owing to that, for the second quarter of this year, plans for changes to the Income Tax Code have been also been abolished.
A series of solutions, permits, approvals that have so far been necessary to obtain in aquaculture and freshwater fisheries have also been abolished.
There is also a proposal to reduce the significant number of approvals and certificates needed to carry out geodetic (such as land surveying) work. Another more than welcome proposal issued by the action plan is the digitisation, ie the expansion of electronic communication in dealing with different reports, forms, requests, and so forth, which will make the lives of many, particularly company and business owners, much easier.
