Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Mirko Sarovic stated after the extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers that the record that determined the set of laws on excise duties was not adopted, or it was taken off the agenda.
According to him, members of the Council of Ministers in the upcoming days will discuss the issues regarding the comments, possible gaps in scheduling during the emergency, phone session.
When it comes to the law on excise duties, which provides additional 15 fenings from excise duties on oil and oil derivatives for the construction of highways and roads, Sarovic said that the attitude of the Alliance for Changes is that it needs to be improved, amended, and thus to provide the amendment phase to the implications and consequences of this law in order to make overcoming of this easier for one category, especially the agricultural sector.
He also noted that the Alliance for Change supports reforms, they are not against these laws at all costs, “but they want better laws, or want reform of laws, but those laws that will include provisions for the ‘blue diesel’ or three fenings for the agricultural sector”.
The Council of Ministers recently, at the special session, established a set of laws – draft laws or amendments to the Law on Excise Duties in BiH, the Law on Payments to Single Account and Allocation of Revenues, and the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Indirect Taxation System in BiH as well as Draft Law on Deposit Insurance in Banks of BiH, whose adoption will allow the continuation of the arrangement with the IMF.
As announced by the Council of Ministers of BiH, proposals of the aforementioned laws (new texts) compared to the previous ones have normatively-technically complied with the opinion of the legislative sector of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
The proposed laws were adopted by the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH in the urgent procedure, and the House of Representatives of the Parliament of BiH should declare about them in the upcoming period.
(Source: FENA)
