Hoti: Local producers not benefiting from taxes on Serbian goods

The head of the LDK Parliamentary Group, Avdullah Hoti, said that as long as steps have been made in the preliminary government in consolidating the state budget and economic development through the private sector, only regrats are being recorded in the PAN government.

“Today, the IMF warns of issues the LDK has repeatedly raised in the Assembly that during this government: Incomes are low in collection, non-productive spending on wages and goods is increasing, legal initiatives undermine the private sector and endanger the fiscal regulation, no restructuring of public enterprises, no quality investments, education reforms are mired, and reforms related to veterans' pensions are delaying”, Hoti wrote.

Regarding the tax on goods from Serbia and Bosnia, Hoti said the IMF found the cost being paid by households through higher prices for agricultural products, in particular from low-income families.

Data from independent studies also shows that goods imported from Serbia and Bosnia have been replaced with goods from Macedonia, Turkey, Israel and other countries. Local producers don't seem to have managed to take advantage of this” tax, Hoti concluded.