The author of the show asked why the criminal offense they had knowledge of was not reported. "This is a disgrace and a disgrace".
Komnenić reminded Radulović that disciplinary proceedings were promptly initiated against lawyers who violated the decision to suspend the provision of services, and that they covered up colleagues who flagrantly violated the law.
The author of the show, Petar Komnenić, showed the letter that the President of the Bar Association, Zdravko Begović, sent to all members of the Bar Association.
The letter signed by Zdravko Begović states:
I inform you that on 11.06.2018 I at the invitation of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Mr. Zoran Pažin, attended the meeting together with the Director of the Tax Administration, Mr. Miomir M. Mugoš. At that meeting, I was informed by the director of the Tax Administration that a certain number of lawyers during 2015, 2016 and 2017 were charged for the decisions they received from the Court, for ex officio defense, in a way that they would in the execution procedure or when delivering expense reports, used accounts that were not reported to the Tax Administration (private, not business accounts), thus avoiding paying taxes.
As the Tax Administration received from the Judicial Council all decisions for ex officio defenses, in the above-mentioned time period, it was established that a number of lawyers were paid monetary contributions on the basis of ex officio defenses to undeclared accounts, for which reason they decided to process all those cases for which they consider that there are certain characteristics of being criminal acts that are prosecuted ex officio.
At my insistence and with the support of the Deputy Prime Minister, it was agreed that I should notify the lawyers in this way, so that immediately after receiving this information, all those who have received the payment of the decision for defense ex officio, to accounts that have not been reported to the Tax Administration, upon receiving this notifications, and within 15 days at the latest, and reports to the Tax Administration, in order to calculate tax on the amounts paid to them.
Radulović says that such a model does not exist anywhere in the region, and Bajić claims that it does.
He stated that he has no information about tax evasion among lawyers.
Bajić said that the essential change is the introduction of a software instead of a hardware solution.
"The goal is to record all traffic."
Janko Odović said that there are countries that also want to be part of the European Union, in which fiscalization of the legal profession is prescribed, and he cited Albania as an example.
He said that the entire Government stands behind the fact that all activities must be fiscalized.
He also added that the figure of over five million in tax debt in the legal profession indicates that greater tax discipline is needed.
Veselin Radulović said that the Government's position on this matter is not clear to them and that the suspension of the lawyers' work was forced.
He asked if it was possible that the prime minister could not deliver his speech for 24 hours.
When asked why they did not raise the issue when the Law was passed, instead of when it began to be applied, Radulović says that the initiative started from the grassroots.
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