4 hours agoIn doubt: Prizren municipality wipes out 364 thousand-euro citizen debt system
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)In the past year, the Prizren municipality led by Mytaher Haskuka has erased from the computer the debts of citizens dealing with waste fees. This is done without consistent reasoning. This fact has been recorded by the Prizren Community Annual Financial Review Report for 2020. The audience [...]
This fact has been recorded by the Prizren Community Annual Financial Review Report for 2020.
The audience wrote in the report that based on data provided by the municipality has been noted that during 2016-2020, from the cashed account registry of the Komuna waste had canceled or canceled debts worth 364,284 euros to 2,397 households on the grounds that it was wrongly billed by two bills for the same household, reports news.
Article 3 paragraph 3.5 “Sorting of waste management in Prizren municipality” approved by date. 19,09,2013 determines it must be done: The commission's formation under municipal administration, for the review of complaints and taxpayers' moneypayers for waste.
“Comuna had not formed a commission that would review citizens' complaints and relevant evidence to verify whether the billing was wrong. There was also no complaint from written - form citizens. The write-off of debts was made directly on software by municipal officials based on verbal complaints by citizens. The municipality uses a software programme to meagime forged waste accounts, but this programme does not provide sufficient security, since, according to municipal officials, there is no trace left of debt repayment and other changes”, the audience wrote in the report.
According to the ZKA, this has been due to lack of effective internal control with the case of write-off.
The audience has further stressed that erasing debts in the absence of protocol complaints, as well as not forming the commission for their review, increases the risk of write-offs in the absence of relevant evidence, as well as affects unfair treatment of taxpayers.
“Furthermore, intervention in waste software by canceling bills without any trace to the system, allows room for misuse, and causes uncertainty of the accuracy of the forged accounts”, the report noted.
ZKA has recommended the mayor of the municipality that it must form a professional commission that will verify the closed-down/annulated bills to ensure that the completed/annulated bills were really wrong based on the actual situation.
