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Coalition Parties Want to Unify Collection of Taxes and Deductions
Tuesday 04 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 4 (TASR) - Not only Smer-SD but also its coalition partners LS-HZDS and the Slovak National Party (SNS) concur that the collection of taxes, deductions and tariffs needs to be unified under a single system, LS-HZDS vice-chair Jozef Habanik said on Tuesday.
"The savings that such a system would bring could be translated into alleviating employers' deduction burden - hence, the system would help stimulate the growth of new jobs," said Habanik, referring to one of the important points of the party's election programme at Hospodarske Noviny daily's discussion forum.
That the collection of taxes and deductions should be carried out by a single administrator is a view shared by SNS MP Jozef Duracka. "This would also alleviate the administration burden that businessmen face," he said.
Another priority of HZDS's election programme with respect to taxes and deductions is the consolidation of public finances. "We want Slovakia to meet the convergence criterium in 2012 that dictates that the public-finance deficit must not exceed 3 percent of GDP," emphasised Habanik, who is convinced that Slovakia needs to increase efficiency in public expenditures and start saving resources in order to stop the public debt from growing.
HZDS rejects the prospect of raising taxes. On the contrary, the party plans to reduce the deduction burden of employers if it becomes part of the next government. "A higher tax and deduction burden doesn't represent a way of addressing economic problems," said Habanik.
Smer doesn't want to increase taxes either, and intends to lower employers' deduction burden in the next election term. "We don't want to raise taxes, but the need to finance high-priority government expenditures as well as the obligation to consolidate public finances forces us to think even today about how to adjust public revenues and expenditures in a responsible way," said Finance Ministry State Secretary Peter Kazimir (Smer).
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