Reader’s Omnibus on the Collapse of the Croatian Legal Order

For some time now, we have been unable to respond to readers in a timely manner or publish all their troubles with the state administration.

Numerous appeals to the journalist regarding the legal violence of the state administration against citizens indicate the collapse of something that some have called the legal order of the Republic of Croatia.
In this issue, we publish a sort of ‘omnibus’ of themes and questions in an attempt to ‘make up’ for the delays. And to our readers Gojko Čuljak from Požega, Ruža Brumnić from Slavonski Brod, Petar Pećina from Zagreb, S. J. (details in the editorial office), we promise articles in the upcoming issues of Lider.

Public Criminal Complaint An unsigned reader writes that he is addressing the journalist because no one in the government wants to take him seriously as an individual. He writes that he is filing a public (!?) criminal complaint against Slavko Linić for violating the Constitution by amending the General Tax Law (NN 78/12). This Law, writes the anonymous reader, ‘allowed for the filling of the state budget with unconstitutional retroactive tax calculations.’
Marina Kralik from Zagreb writes: ‘Regarding the case of the violent eviction of the Vukić family in Zadar, a series of irregularities can also be seen in the actions of the Tax Administration. Based on my own experience, the Tax Administration did not allow the closure of businesses until debts were settled. Thus, among entrepreneurs, there are many victims whose ‘obligations’ continued even though they ceased to operate due to bankruptcy. An entrepreneur who had already failed could not close the business, but the debt piled up indefinitely (until eviction, ed.).
Ivan Bužanić, a former official of the Tax Administration, writes about the cover-up of responsibility in the Ministry of Finance: ‘… nor did the subsequent ministers (after B. Prka) bring anything into order. B. Škego, M. Crkvenac, I. Šuker, M. Dalić, and S. Linić are equally responsible, as they remained silent about all the negativities. I am ready to testify publicly about this, as the plundering in the Ministry of Finance has been happening since 1994 and is war profiteering, and Sanader is not the only war profiteer.’
Luka Jereb from Zagreb writes about the ‘(ir)responsibility of employees in public and state institutions in enforcing the law. No matter what these laws are, they are still laws with consequences that citizens must bear due to negligence, sloppiness, and irresponsibility of officials and appointees.’ Reader Jereb says that it was in vain that he wrote and sent emails to the public ombudsman, the Tax Administration, and the ministries of economy, justice, and administration, as well as the Parliamentary Committee for Justice.
Zlatko Jukić writes: ‘I would like to build on your article about enforcement scavenging and the collection of someone else’s tax and ask for whom the rule of one-third applies during enforcement proceedings and how Fina, tax officials, creditors, and especially banks manage to circumvent this fundamental constitutional right of every person to work and exist?’

Salary 0.00 kuna Sometimes it seems that readers answer each other with their questions. Kiki Brebrić from Petrinja writes: ‘I am a co-debtor for a friend on a loan; however, she receives maternity benefits of 4700 kuna and does not pay her loan. Two-thirds of my salary go to repaying my loans, and one-third goes to her loan, and for the past five months, when my salary arrives, I receive 0.00 kuna.’
And others have written Z. L. (details in the editorial office), who proves that he was convicted based on a false document from the Tax Administration, reader Jerko Miletić about rejections with unfounded reasons from the so-called appeals service of the Ministry of Finance, which is now signed by ‘prominent’ Ljubica Strugar instead of ‘removed’ Zdenka Koharić, etc.