On the freshly updated list of employers who do not pay salaries on Thursday on the website of the Tax rules are published and the name of Croatian football club Hajduk, which is threatened with bankruptcy proceedings or bankruptcy if in the next few months to be started regularly pay salaries.
The government has, in fact, at a meeting this Thursday proposed a new bankruptcy law in which there is a provision according to which the Commercial Court, ex officio have within eight days to run predstečajni or bankruptcy proceedings if the employer is late with the payment of wages for more than 30 dana.Donekle good circumstance for employers who fail to islaćuju wages in this period is that this law will in the Croatian Parliament will have to pass two readings, which would mean that it would probably be passed by March next year.
So, Hajduk could be found before the pre-bankruptcy procedure if by then not paying the salaries on time. Info Tax Administration show that Hajduk in June this year was not paid a salary for one employee, in August for eight, in September to 64 in October to 65 employees.
support for unions
Provision to initiate bankruptcy proceedings for nonpayment of wages supported the unions and the Croatian Employers' Association, as confirmed by Tomislav Đuričin, member of the Executive Committee of the Association of SMEs at HUP, and Gordana Palais, lawyer Alliance samostalnh Croatian Unions. They participated in the working group for drafting this law, so we are so Đuričin said CEA absolutely supports the provision that an employer who is late with a salary more than 30 days must go to predstečajnu settlement or bankruptcy.
"Nonpayment paid the ultimate indication that the entrepreneur is no longer able to regularly pay their obligations. This means that it is unable to pay or other obligations to its business partners and suppliers, and so does damage and other entrepreneurs, and therefore we believe that it is a provision that seeks to market as quickly and efficiently cleaned of entrepreneurs who have no chance to survive in the market "told us unrest.
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Gordana Palais points out that the practice has shown that bankruptcy proceedings are brought too late and that therefore the company in bankruptcy is no longer able to meet most of the workers' claims.
"Therefore we are in the interest of the bankruptcy or settlement predstečajna start as soon as possible to see whether the company in the pre-bankruptcy procedure at all the perspectives for survival, and if not, to urgently send in bankruptcy to workers to pay of the estate, "she stated Gordana Palais.
Ivan Suker, the former finance minister and member of parliament of the HDZ, he told us, however, that in the party have yet to study the proposed text of the bankruptcy law, and that is far too early to say whether he would support the HDZ Parliamentary Debate.
As regards the provisions on sending companies in predstečajnu settlement or bankruptcy if not paid salaries for more than 30 days, he told us to be first to solve the problem of illiquidity and default in the general economy, and only then this provision included in legislative changes.
“Naravno da je primarna dužnost poslodavca da isplaćuje plaće, ali ako se taj poduzetnik našao u problemima zbog toga što njemu netko drugi nije na vrijeme platio račun, tada je jasno kako nije kriv što u nekom razdoblju nje mogao isplatiti plaću radnicima.
Dakle, najprije treba srediti problem nelikvidnosti, a tek onda i tu odredbu uključiti u zakon”, istaknuo je Šuker.
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Only the calculation of contributions
Otherwise, the tax authorities on Thursday released an updated list of 9359 employers who do not pay salaries for 38,638 workers. These include the 7467 legal entities with 32,901 employees, and in 1892 individuals, or craftsmen who have 5737 workers.
It is the entrepreneurs who have three consecutive months or three months for a period of six months showed only the calculation of contributions without payment of wages. The Law on Income Tax provides that the Tax Authority may, on the basis of data collected on the form JOPPD, on its website publish a list of taxpayers / employers who do not pay their wages to their workers, or who are on the submitted forms three consecutive months or three months for a period of six months showed only the calculation of contributions without payment of wages.
The data were the basis of the forms in which they expressed their employers not paying salaries and subsequent payment of back wages, and for the accounting period from January to October (criterion three consecutive months), and for the accounting period from May to October (criterion three months at a time period of six months).
For clarification, the statement of the Tax Administration argues that these lists of taxpayers / businesses who do not pay salaries are not comparable because each new publication of the list increases the number of periods for which data are reported. The first list of tax administration announced in mid-July and it was then 7038 businesses, of which 5620 companies and 1418 craftsmen who did not pay their salaries.
