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19 January 2019 07:52 am
*GOVERNMENT – UNITED KINGDOM – COOPERATION
Joint efforts to improve tax discipline
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Podgorica, (MINA-BUSINESS) – It was concluded at a meeting Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism Pavle Radulovic had with British Ambassador Alison Kemp that Montenegro would enjoy the United Kingdom’s support in the improvement of tax discipline through a joint project aimed at tackling the informal economy.
“We agreed it was necessary to strengthen the control in the tourism industry and improve the functioning of local secretariats in that field, in order to increase the public revenues at both national and local level,” the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism says in a press release.
According to Radulovic, the Ministry is busy with developing a database of unregistered providers of private accommodation.
“Despite the fact that this was a record-breaking season, the illegal accommodation and the failure to register guests are among the persistent problems we still have in this sector. The people who earn their money in this way need to know that they deprive future generations of the income necessary for their education and healthcare,” said Radulovic.
It was concluded at the meeting that the two countries had good cooperation and that the number of tourist arrivals from the UK was increasing.
The Ministry says that over 45,000 of British tourists visited Montenegro between January and November, adding that good cooperation has been established with the tour operators and travel agencies from the United Kingdom.
Radulovic and Kemp discussed the plastic pollution, as a filed whose regulation would be support by the UK.
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