The Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ITA BiH) submitted 22 reports to the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH during the nine months of this year due to the well-founded suspicion that the state budget was damaged by 7.1 million BAM due to tax evasion or fraud. Tax inspectors found 47.3 million BAM in additional obligations during their inspections of taxpayers and filed 2.545 misdemeanor orders in the amount of 8.3 million BAM.
Corruption has a first and last name and cannot be tied to an institution, ITA BiH claims. 532 reports from citizens were registered on the free info-line, of which 26 refer to suspected corruption. Because of this, a report was forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH this year against an employee of the ITA BiH.
”From our taxpayers, if they encounter this problem, we expect them to provide us with specific information, without any fear or apprehension about who the person who works in the ITA is if they asked for a bribe or any other form of gift or benefit,” says the Head of Communication and International Relation Cooperation at ITA BiH, Ratko Kovacevic.
Four years ago, Emir Mesic reported corruption in connection with the rental of customs terminals. Although he received whistleblower status, a person who reports corruption in the workplace is protected from reprisals and persecution, he was eventually fired.
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