People that worked abroad will not pay tax if they prove that the company through which they were hired paid tax in the country where they were hired, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said in response to a reporter’s question regarding the PRO’s notifications on tax payments to citizens who worked abroad.
“I want to clarify a few things. This is not a retroactive tax. This is a law that was passed by the previous SDSM and DUI-led government, and the PRO, because of the legal deadline before those decisions expired at the end of last year, had to address the persons, as well as all citizens in the country, so that they pay the tax they should pay in the country. If the PRO had not done that, then some government after us or perhaps this government would have come and sought criminal liability for the PRO, or rather for the director, for damaging the state budget. The PRO only sent a notification to the individuals that they should settle that duty within a certain period. We had a meeting in my office, we talked with individuals who were in different parts of the world and we came to the conclusion that they should prove that the companies that hired them paid tax in the country or countries where they were hired. In that way, the PRO will not collect that tax,” said PM Mickoski.
The Prime Minister, accompanied by Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski, United States Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires Nicole Varnes, and Public Enterprise for State Roads director Koce Trajanovski, inspected the works on the Gostivar – Bukojchani motorway Saturday.
