Last year, citizens and companies filed lawsuits worth 29.788.267 euros against the Capital City, due to which a significant part of the money could be drained from the city coffers in the coming period.
This is stated in the independent auditor's report on the proposal for the final account of the Capital City budget for 2020. The auditor points out that the data on the value of disputes was obtained based on the report of the Property Directorate for the period from February 1 to December 31, 2020.
"In our opinion, the capital city's budget could in the coming period have a significant outflow of funds on the basis of the above," it says in that document.
As "Vijesti" wrote, the total value of court cases, which citizens and companies initiated against the Capital City, in March 2019 amounted to 50.147.225 euros.
This is the official data of the Directorate for Property of the Capital City, which was also pointed out in the audit of the final account for 2018, which was carried out by "HLB Mont Audit".
According to the opinion of the auditing company HLB "Mont Audit", the non-recording of donations intended for public institutions, whose founder is the Capital in the amount of 94.297 euros, led to the incorrect preparation of the report on December 31, 2020.
"Funds in the amount of 188.458 euros, recorded in favor of the main account of the treasury of the capital city on 31.12.2020. year, on the basis of donations intended for public institutions, whose founder is the Capital City, were not recorded through the draft of the Final Account of the Budget of the Capital City Podgorica for 2020, in the part of final deposits (final balance), which in our opinion is not in accordance with Article 40, paragraph 1 point 1 of the Law on Financing of Local Self-Government, nor in accordance with the Rulebook on the Uniform Classification of Accounts for the Budget of Montenegro and Municipal Budgets, which provides for the recording of financial assets", according to HLB "Mont Audit".
Capital 2020, the document says, did not fully "organize the records of claims based on the personal income tax surcharge", from which the number of taxpayers who did not submit the prescribed forms and executed the debt would be determined.
"Also, the Capital City has not established a system to control the comprehensiveness of the inflow of the personal income tax surcharge, so this audit cannot determine with confidence whether all the obligations of the payer on this basis have been fulfilled, that is, whether all the Budget revenues have been based on the tax surcharge charged to the income of natural persons".
As of December 31, 2020, it is added, the Administration of Local Public Revenue claims 20.392.851 euros based on the determined and unpaid real estate tax, of which 14.569.854 is unpaid from natural persons and 5.822.996 from legal entities.
"In our opinion, the Budget of the Capital City in 2020 is significantly deprived of part of the receipts based on real estate tax, the collection of which would lead to a significant change in the proposal of the Final Account of the Budget of the Capital City for 2020, as well as the corresponding quarterly and annual financial reports .
On 31.12.2020. year, the Administration of Local Public Revenues claims EUR 2.310.679 based on the determined but unpaid local communal fees.
"In our opinion, the Budget of the Capital City in 2020 was significantly deprived of part of the receipts based on uncollected income from local communal fees...".
According to the records of the Administration of Local Public Revenues, of the total unpaid claim as of December 31, 2020, the debt based on the fee for the use of municipal roads is EUR 894,147.37. Of that figure, 778.602 are still owed from last year.
"By examining the balance of analytical account 72112 - income from the sale of real estate - deposits for return (Fund for compensation), it was determined that on December 31, 2020, a negative (debt) balance in the amount of 218.298 euros was reported, which is not a natural state of this analytical account. In our opinion, the stated statement of the negative balance is not in accordance with the Rulebook on the unified classification of accounts for the Budget of Montenegro and the budgets of municipalities", concludes "HLB Mont Audit".
Labor disputes are also due
The capital paid out almost 1,9 million euros in the first six months of this year, mainly due to lost disputes with employees in the administration and city enterprises, who filed lawsuits due to salary reductions and mismatched coefficients. Over five million euros were paid to the workers, who sued the capital, and that sum could be over ten million, as slightly more than half of the cases have been completed.
The total number of workers who sued the capital is 2.366.
In many disputes, as can be seen from the documentation, interest and costs of litigation are high, and a large number of workers sued the capital city, demanding the return of ten percent of their salary illegally deducted by order of the then mayor Miomir Mugoša in 2013.
In June of that year, he made a decision to reduce wages in all city companies, about which the directors were informed by fax. All directors obeyed the decision to reduce wages, except for Vladan Vučelić, the then head of the company "Vodovod i kanalizacija".
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