Advisor to the President of Montenegro for Domestic Policy Nebojša Vuksanović said in "Colors of Morning" that the amendments to the Law on Real Estate Tax, which MPs will decide on again on October 13, create an unequal position for farmers and violate the principle of competition.
Vuksanović stated that the changes would allow municipalities to independently determine the amount of tax breaks for agricultural land, which, he said, would lead to legal uncertainty and inequality among producers.
He also warned against the retroactive application of the law, pointing out that this would prevent the company "13. jul - Plantaže" from collecting multi-million-dollar funds from the Municipality of Tuzi based on judgments in its favor.
Vuksanović added that he hopes that MPs will not vote again on the amendments to the law, recalling that both the Ministry of Finance and several legal experts have given a negative opinion on its content.
"It happens that with the amendments to the law, the tax relief, when it comes to real estate tax on agricultural land, was actually given to municipalities in a way of deciding to what extent they will provide certain tax reliefs, in this way, all farmers in the whole of Montenegro were effectively equal, and the new amendments stipulate that the tax relief can go up to 90 percent, but when you say up to 90 percent, it means that it can be from zero to 90 percent. And that means at the end of the day that, for example, in the municipality of Bijelo Polje, that tax relief can be 30 percent, and in Pljevlja 70 percent, and in that sense, those two agricultural producers are ultimately not in the same position in terms of costs," said Vuksanović.
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