Northern Macedonia Plans Tax on Unweds

Northern Macedonia Prime Minister Hristian Mickoski, citing the decline of nightiness in the country, has declared that his government is considering imposing additional taxes on unmarried and unmarried people, the Anadolu broadcasts, Periscopi broadcasts.

In a government activity with the “demographic trends, potential challenges and solutions ʹ development of strategic documents for demographic resistance”, Prime Minister Mickoski said it is time for a state where more young people are married and more children are born.

Mickoski stressed that this is not only a North Macedonia problem, it is a challenge of all of Europe, even wider.

“Build institutions that do not spend the youth of others, but cultivate it. Building a country where hope is more important than passport. We know there are no magical solutions, but there is a deliberate, constant, reforming struggle. And we've started. Every measure, every investment, every policy we bring is meant to restore trust. And here we seriously think of additional taxes for unmarried and unmarried persons”, Mickoski said.

He announced that in 2024, 16,061 children were born in northern Macedonia as 20,201 people died. That, he stressed, is a natural decline of 4,140 people in just one year.

Over the past four years, we have lost more than 33,000 inhabitants, as if a city had disappeared as Cavadari or Krichova. Nighttime rates have dropped from 12.5 percent in 2010 to only 8.8 percent in 2024x1>, he said.

He said that in many municipalities and villages in the country there are already no first classes, and more and more people live alone.

According to him, his government's struggle is to make <x0 life more valuable, to teach a blessing, not a burden, and to give young people reason to stay in the country”.

It's time for the future. It's time for a country where more children will be born. This is our primary experience, more young people getting married and giving birth to more children, and those who have moved back. Because that's how we're going to live with more hearts”, he said. /Periscopi/