Šibenik Mayor: We Will Not Raise Taxes or Tourist Flat Rate

Šibenik Mayor Željko Burić announced in an interview for HRT a reduction in the sales tax and added that there will be no increase in property taxes, as reported by šibenski.hr.

– We have completed the first cohesion fund, covering both public transport and major infrastructure – the agglomeration project, the Bikara project, the waste management center. The next financial tranche, integral territorial investments, NPOO, of course, the cohesion fund, from NPOO the construction of schools that are aligned, not to list them all now. What is particularly important from ITU, where 100 percent funding is going, is the youth center, a completely new fire station that we will dedicate to the firefighters tragically lost in the Kornati tragedy, but also the relocation of the old fire station, which will enable the establishment of order in parking and traffic in the old town core – announced Burić.

He added that they are about to issue a location permit for the valorization of the double rampart.

– We have not forgotten the old escalator project, or the quick access from sea level to the fortress of St. Michael and the final phase that will be our specialty, our interest, extending the season. This is the connection of the cable cars of Mihovil and Ivan as the two most prominent and highest structures, but also the functional connection of the unique fortification system of the city of Šibenik – explained Burić.

Among other things, the Šibenik mayor commented on the introduction of a new property tax.

– The city of Šibenik will not raise taxes or the tourist flat rate, nor the so-called tax on weekend houses that has been converted into property tax. You will be the first to hear that we will go for a reduction of parafiscal levies, we will certainly reduce the sales tax by a third and thus ease the burden on our entrepreneurs and citizens to some extent to control inflation – said Burić.