The police filed criminal charges against 24 individuals and legal entities on suspicion of evading taxes and contributions in the amount of 763.000 euros by not declaring the foreign workforce.
As announced by the Police Administration so far, as part of the "Work Permits" action, nine criminal charges against 12 individuals and 12 legal entities have been submitted to the competent prosecutors due to the well-founded suspicion that they have committed criminal acts of tax and contribution evasion.
"The police started the "Work Permits" action based on operational knowledge that several legal entities are committing tax and contribution evasion and abuse in business operations when hiring labor from abroad, mainly from neighboring countries, in such a way that contracts with these employees are not reported to the competent tax office. authority, thus causing damage to the Budget based on unpaid taxes and contributions".
They state that the last such case was recorded in Budva and that a criminal complaint was filed with the competent prosecutor in Kotor against Sanel Kasum from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the executive director and founder of the company "Global Inžinjering" Budva and against the legal entity "Global Inžinjering", due to reasonable suspicion that have committed the criminal offense of tax and contribution evasion.
"It is suspected that, from the end of June 2017 to the end of April 2018, they obtained 50 work permits for the temporary stay of foreign citizens in our country for the purpose of employment, but they did not register any worker as an employee to the competent authority, and they paid these workers earnings in cash, concealing information about their tax obligations and contributions that they were obliged to pay on this basis, which caused damage to the Budget of Montenegro in the amount of 32.269 euros," the announcement states.
The police add that the "Work Permit" campaign continues.
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