Dnevni avaz: Beginning of the application of new entity laws on income tax, especially the federal one, has initiated many reactions and complaints, and even some accusations that because of the disagreement of laws the employed have been discriminated, firstly in civil service. The servants from the FBiH in the state institutions have pointed out that they have 80 to 400 KM lower incomes in comparison to their colleagues from the RS even though they are doing the same job. Workers from the RS, who work in the FBiH are also complaining and think that they have been discriminated. Bosniak returners in the RS, who must pay the tax on income in the FBiH are complaining as well, because they do not have the right on benefits.
OHR notified
The assistant of the federal minister of finance, Hajrudin Hadžimehanović admits that there is some illogicality which should be fixed. Since we have two disagreed laws, we have proposed to adopt the rules on their application. Citizens of the FBiH in the RS are in the same position as the citizens of the RS in the FBiH. We would like those rules to be adopted as soon as possible, and it should be done by the entity governments – Hadžimehanović says.
Shame with parturient women
The Ministry of Finance of BiH will also ask for harmonization of the payment for work during the holidays. Namely, that field has been arranged by the law in the RS, while it is not in the FBiH. This means that the employees from the RS receive additional remunerations, and from the FBiH do not. Also, he will try to harmonize the area for salaries of parturient women, because for the employed from the RS, this has been paid by the state during one year, and they even receive three salaries as assistance, and in the FBiH cantons, but only if they have money.
– It makes us think that we stimulate birth giving in one entity. All parturient women must have the same rights – Kasumović has said.
According to him, they have already notified the OHR and have proposed to the Government of the FBiH to solve this with the Government of the RS in a way that for the persons from the RS the law from that entity should be applied, and the federal for the citizens of the FBiH, regardless the fact where they have been working. The tax exemptions over personal deductions for the persons from the RS in the FBiH and for citizens of the FBiH in the RS can also be imposed.
The list of differences and illogicality of the entity regulations has also been reflected in the fact that the tax on income in the FBiH is ten, and in the RS is eight percents. In the smaller bh. entity the taxed part also encompasses the food allowance, travel expenditures and other supplements, and in the FBiH these have not been included in the taxed part. According to the federal regulations, this has been done by individual, and the law from the RS implies that this is being done by the employer, which in this case, is the state.
List of illogicalities
– Employees from the RS in the state institutions will have a bigger basis for pension insurance, so the pension will also be higher, regardless the fact that they have been doing the same job as their colleagues from the FBiH, and the solution can also be the adoption of the state law on income tax – Deputy Minister of Finance of BiH, Fuad Kasumović has said.