Project: Digging into Digital Work in Serbia: Who are crowdworkers from Serbia and why they work on global digital platforms?

26Sep2018

The Center Presented a Research about the Digital Workers at a Publicly-Private Dialogue about Lump-sum Taxpayers

Within the “Month of the lump-sum taxpayers“ campaign, NALED and the Association for the Development of Entrepreneurship from Nis, in cooperation with the Republic Secretariat for Public Policy and with the support of USAID, organized three round tables in Belgrade (10.09), Nis (18.09) and Novi Sad (21.09), where the possibilities for improving the status of lump-sum taxpayers were discussed. In Belgrade, another roundtable was held only for representatives of the IT sector (25.09).

At the meeting the following was highlighted as key defects in lump-sum taxation: the uncertainty in the process of approving the status of a lump-sum taxpayer, the imprecision of the criteria and the scope for great subjectivity in the work of tax inspectors in determining the tax amount, delays in tax solutions, extensive administration, obstacles to the realization of the right to health and pension insurance.

In addition to the representatives of NALED, the Tax Administration, the Association for Entrepreneurship from Nis, the Tax Administration and Pausal.rs, the CENTER's Executive Director Tanja Jakobi spoke at the roundtables at the invitation of NALED. Jakobi presented the results of the research on digital workers in Serbia, which the CENTER has been implementing since the beginning of the year. Jakobi stressed the need for finding appropriate legal solutions that would respond to new forms of work.

A report from this meeting, citing the results of the Center's research, was also published on the portal blic.rs (published on September 10, 2018).