Welfare state according to Cerar: penalty for sprig of parsley without invoice – €3000

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Cerar is prepared to punish ordinary citizens for the smallest offence, but he is incapable of tackling financial crime and tax evasion. Recently, the anger of Slovenian citizens towards Cerar’s bureaucratic government has been fuelled by another tax injustice: a tax inspector, under the guise of a customer, punished a vegetable seller with a fine of €3,000 for selling parsley worth €1.50 without issuing an invoice. Slovenian citizens are justifiably upset since they perceive the disproportion between the penalty and the offence as another attack of the Cerar-Židan-Erjavec government against ordinary citizens. But this is not all. The government is playing dumb and pointing at the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia (FURS), which is obliged to implement the existing legislation. Therefore, Janko Veber’s calls for the resignation of the director of FURS are just a sham since he did not even move a finger to change the absurd law.

Slovenian citizens are well aware that the Financial Administration often “punishes” various taxable persons very selectively. The usually have an easier time punishing ordinary citizens who do not have any controversial political connections. However, in the case of the “parsley affair”, the blame does not lie with FURS but with Cerar’s government, which should have been aware of such anomalies and promptly corrected them in the two years since the introduction of fiscal cash registers. But no, the Cerar-Židan-Erjavec group supervises ordinary citizens and bleeds them dry, while their political friends are granted financial and criminal pardons only because they are part of the left-wing elite, which has been ruling over Slovenians through open and covert violence for more than 70 years.

As far as the recent great money laundering affair in NLB is concerned, Cerar’s government has not taken any decisive actions, apart from trying to establish their own commission of inquiry in order to interfere with Logar’s work and silence everything, even though this is an international high-profile matter with serious consequences for the security and reputation of Slovenia. Janković’s financial irregularities are being dragged out and ignored in a similar way despite the abundance of tangible evidence and witnesses. But Cerar’s “ethical” government is shutting its eyes and going after ordinary citizens.

Fiscal cash registers for family businesses and supplementary activities need to be abolished
Fiscal cash registers are another failed measure of Cerar’s government that has not produced the desired results, and it has put a burden on small family businesses and supplementary activities, which generally have a low revenue. That is why the government needs to listen to them and abolish fiscal cash registers, at least in such cases.

Cerar’s greedy government has also burdened citizens with the costs for purchasing and maintaining the fiscal cash registers. Many people on small remote farms did not even have internet and instead simply stopped engaging in their activity, which decreased the source of their livelihood even more. Such measures show that Cerar’s government did not consider Slovenian citizens but only the collected taxes. Cerar’s government was not concerned with the welfare of entrepreneurs, particularly people with small supplementary activities, but with an insatiable greed, and after two years there are now even fewer taxpayers in Slovenia. The consequences for the Slovenian economy have been embarrassing and harmful. Many people abandoned their activity or moved it abroad, and financial experts have found that after two years of fiscal cash registers, the amount of collected taxes is actually lower than in the period before the introduction of the registers.

SDS has been advocating for the abolition of the failed fiscal cash registers. They have even submitted a proposal for an amendment to the Fiscal Validation of Receipts. The amendment envisages the abolition of fiscal cash registers and would decrease the extent of the grey economy and undeclared work. Simplifying bureaucratic procedures and decreasing the related financial burdens for small family businesses would encourage more people to transition from the grey economy or undeclared work into the lawful economy. This would provide them with social security and would ensure that more people pay taxes and contribute to the state budget as well as the health care and pension budgets.

But this consideration, which is dictated by common sense, is apparently outside the mental range of the Cerar-Židan-Erjavec coalition. They did not support the initiative for abolishing fiscal cash registers. Instead, they will continue handing out €3,000 fines for sprigs of parsley, while Janković and similar “sheriffs” walk the streets as free men and even govern. Hopefully only until the next election.

Franci Donko

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