At the end of October this year, due to failure to settle obligations within 60 days, 1,851 Croatian companies were blocked. This increased the number of blocked legal entities on an annual basis by 520 companies or 39 percent.
The largest part of the due and unsettled obligations of blocked legal entities is owed to the state. Namely, of their total of 575.2 million kuna due and unsettled obligations, as much as 55.4 percent, according to the latest data from Fina, relates to taxes and debts based on decisions of competent authorities regarding enforced collection, while 39.3 percent relates to unsettled obligations based on court and other decisions, and only 5.3 percent to those for the payment of contributions from salaries and on salaries.
The largest share of unsettled obligations of legal entities is found in the manufacturing industry (about 40 percent), and almost 46 percent of blocked companies are based in Zagreb. A somewhat better picture emerges when observing this year’s October data in relation to the state from six months ago. At that time, we come to indicators that at the end of October this year there are almost 6 percent fewer blocked legal entities than there were, for example, at the beginning of April this year.
Improvements are also visible when observing the state of total unsettled, or continuous obligations of legal and natural persons older than 61 days or more. Namely, these obligations have decreased by about 15 percent, or by 2.9 billion kuna, and at the end of October this year, they amounted to about 16.9 billion kuna, of which 13.1 billion is owed by legal entities and 3.8 billion kuna by natural persons in debt. (Nikola Prskalo)
