The municipality of Tivat canceled four of the five resolutions passed a few months ago on the calculation and collection of fees for the development of construction land for the facilities of the new wing of the elite nautical-tourist center Porto Montenegro in Tivat, called Boka Place.
This was unofficially confirmed by the "News" from the top of the local city administration, with a note that the solutions were calculated according to the old utility prices valid until recently, according to which Porto Montenegro was classified in the so-called the first zone, one step below the most exclusive, zone 1A, to which that complex was transferred in the meantime by the new Decision on compensation for the development of construction land.
Boka Place consists of five large new residential and business buildings with a total area of about 75.000 square meters, and this over 100 million euro complex, whose investor is Adriatic Marinas - Porto Montrenegro, is being built by the Podgorica company Bemax. The works, without paid utilities, started at the end of last year and should be completed in 2023. In the meantime, the new municipal government calculated the fee according to which Porto Montenegro's obligation to the city coffers, on that basis, amounted to a total of around 1,8 million euros.
Porto Montenegro, despite announcing that it would do so a few months ago, has not yet paid a single cent towards the utilities for Boka Place, and in the meantime, after several months of tension between the Municipality and the Government, a new Decision on utilities came into force, according to which that elite complex was classified in a higher and more expensive class for the collection of that fee. At the new price, Porto Montenegro will have to pay around 1,8 million euros for utilities for Boka Place, instead of 2,3 million, which according to unofficial information was not well received by the company's management, which refused to discuss this matter with the city council. management of Tivat, agree on a mutually acceptable solution.
"Since they did not pay on time, we annulled four of the five previously adopted decisions on utility bills, and now they will be issued new ones, with higher amounts, which, in the meantime, have come into force. The reason why the fifth solution was not annulled is that Porto Montenegro had previously complained about it and the administrative procedure on that basis is still ongoing, so it could not be canceled at the moment," a source at the head of the municipal government in Tivat told "Vijesta" , adding that the city administration will not give up its intention to collect taxes from Porto Montenegro that are paid by all other investors in Tivat, because the Municipality needs money to build the missing communal infrastructure and public facilities for all citizens.
In the summer of 2018, the previous Tivat DPS-SD-HGI government in Porto Montenegro, under extremely controversial circumstances and at the repeated calls of the highest state DPS officials, the President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović and the then Prime Minister Duško Marković to do so, wrote off the 5,6 due until then, 2019 million euros of debt for utilities. The Agency for the Protection of Competition, which in October XNUMX, under pressure from the EU Delegation, which sought an explanation of this extremely unusual forgiveness of fiscal obligations to a company, initiated an examination procedure to assess whether this state aid to Porto Montenegro was legal or not, but the AZZK did not complete this procedure until she didn't finish today.
Porto Montenegro, referring to the controversial contract for the sale of Arsenal signed in 2006 by the then Prime Minister Milo Đukanović and the then owner of Adratic Marinas, Peter Munk, refuses to pay those, but also other utilities due in the meantime, considering that based on three reasons that Montenegrin laws do not at all recognized as a basis for forgiving the investor utilities (the area of the Arsenal buildings before 1945, the costs of demolition of the buildings and the costs of ecological rehabilitation of the site) has the right to a total forgiveness of about 12 million euros of utilities.
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