Bosnian Serbs Consider Taxing Singles To Aid Birthrate

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0782ed1faa85ce6dfadc752511955b47 Bosnian Serbs Consider Taxing Singles To Aid Birthrate

By Danijel Kovacevic

In the flashing of worries that within a few decades the Bosnian Serb reason could be left without indefinite able-bodied citizens, the RS Patron’ Union has asked for an crisis session of the Republika Srpska authorities and assembly on population policies.

The combination says one measure to stimulate sociology could be to tax unmarried men and women, which would enhearten more people to marry and so escalation the birth rate.

The union aforementioned it needs to figure it out who would be taxed and at what degree, and whether the tax would be the same for all age company, but it said they were employed on the details.

“This is the biggest subject problem of Republika Srpska. This call for broader social action and so we keep in view an urgent response from the maximal institutions of the RS,” Sasa Acic, combination president, told BIRN.

“We Testament initiate our conclusions, which faculty be forwarded to the government of the RS, the National Forum and the President of the Republic, and that, climactically, will solve the problem,” he accessorial.

According to the union, the RS stands to misplace some 100,000 able-corporal citizens – almost 10 per penny of its overall population – in the after five years.

Unemployment Testament fall as the remaining labour conscription ages. The downside is that thither will be fewer people sinistral to work.

“Ten years from now, the RS Testament be forced to import labour,” demographist Stevo Pasalic told BIRN.

The opposite birth rate is another brains for the reduced size of the working-age inhabitants. According to statistics, in less than two dotage, the RS population fell by 10,761 general public, which is the difference between the issue of newborn babies and deceased citizens.

Most economists dismiss the belief of a tax on singles but agree that the outlying emigration of young workers is a big problem.

“Unfortunately, economic parameters present that Bosnian citizens Testament only live a better living if they leave the country,” economist Zoran Pavlovic told BIRN.

The RS state has not yet responded to the Employers’ Brotherhood request.

“We will say augmented when we receive their authoritative request but I don’t think that burdensome singles or couples without children is a believable option,” a source from the administration told BIRN.

The “singles tax” image is not new. Some two years ago, RS president Milorad Dodik planned the same thing, but it never got all the more support.

Many of those who would be feigned by this proposal find it deep down disturbing.

“I find it very opprobrious – what if somebody can’t change a child?” Banja Luka local Goran, who has been trying to corner a baby with his wife for eld, told BIRN.

“This complete concept is wrong. If they are anxious that workers are leaving for forth, why not raise salaries and keep them hither?” Goran asked.

Another Banja Luka regional, Dragan said: “I am divorced – double. So I think I have paid sufficiency already.

“If they insist on a tax, I Testament marry for the third time. My confidante already call me ‘Lord of the circle’, so why not buy another wedding ring?” Dragan accessorial with a smile.
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