Relief or barrier for investors from Pljeval: 50 percent of utilities are forgiven for those who employ at least 10 workers

The municipality of Pljevlja changed the decision on communal equipment of construction land, by which investors who would employ ten or more workers paid 50 percent less of that type of compensation.

This, they believe in the opposition, will reduce the already poor interest of investors in investing in Pljevlja and that they should have been completely exempted from utility payments.

"We were guided by the logic that this is very justified because in the existing decision there is a reduction of one hundred percent, that is, that the builders of such buildings do not pay compensation at all. We think that it is not fair, first of all because of the people who build individual buildings, that is, private houses for housing, where their housing issue is solved and they are exempted from 50 percent. So I see no reason why investors who want to employ ten or more people would not be exempted by 50 percent and not XNUMX percent," said the Secretary of the Secretariat for Spatial Planning. Dragan Šubarić.

Šubarić said that in Pljevlja the price in the first zone is 40 euros and that investors will pay 20 euros for the communal equipment of construction land, when it is reduced by fifty percent.

"In Bar, the price in the first zone is 126 euros. When 80 percent is deducted, 25 euros of compensation remains. With us, the price in the first zone is 40 euros, and when you subtract 50 percent, the investor needs to pay 20 euros. In Podgorica, which is incomparably richer than Pljevlja, they have a reduction of 20 percent of everything. And their prices in the first zone are 147 euros. Many municipalities did not introduce a reduction in fees, and I did not find that any municipality introduced a reduction of one hundred percent, except for the municipality of Pljevlja", said Šubarić.

For the councilor of the Democratic Party of Socialists Haris Alavač this decision of the local government is wrong, because instead of a business benefit, it will be a business barrier.

"Given Pljevlja's geographical position and weak traffic connections, the intention of the previous government was to try to somehow create business benefits for an investor to invest in Pljevlja rather than in other areas that have better traffic connections. As can be seen from other cities, Bar has an 80 percent fee reduction, some municipalities have fifty percent. Put yourself in the role of an investor who needs to invest in Pljevlja or Danilovgrad, Bar or a neighboring city. When he sees, among other things, that this compensation in Bar will free him from 80 thousand and 50 thousand in Pljevlja. And whatever he decides, he will go where his conditions are better. It is likely that the local government was faced with the knowledge that the level of local revenues in the coming period will be lower and then starts from the worst and most difficult end. It hits investors. And when they chase away the last ones, of which there are not many in Pljevlja, then there will be no property tax, no concessions, no personal income tax. We will come to the point that in five, six years we will say what we have abolished. Let's not stifle the feeling of businessmen that they should come to Pljevlja. Or someone who has capital in Pljevlja will start that business", said Alavać.

Member of DPS Saša Ječmenica believes that the employment limit for investors who are ready to invest in Pljevlja should be increased from ten to at least thirty employees.

He said that the Municipality of Pljevlja does not have an organized business zone with all communal connections and that there is no indication that it will have one in the future.

And Ječmenica believes that such a decision by its very nature represents a business barrier.