{"id":9320,"date":"2021-01-16T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=151001"},"modified":"2021-01-16T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T20:22:00","slug":"serbian-freelancers-protest-retroactive-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/serbian-freelancers-protest-retroactive-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian Freelancers Protest Retroactive Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/002f7728-ec64-42eb-b6b7-a68d29952b2b_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of freelancers and online workers marched through central Belgrade on January 16 to protest a recent law that requires them to pay income taxes for the last five years. The Serbian Tax Administration sent out thousands of tax bills in October 2020. Organized by an informal group known as the Association Of Internet Workers In Serbia, demonstrators called the practice \u201ctax prosecution,\u201d claiming the measure has been adopted without prior discussion. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that protests are not a solution as \u201ctaxes must be paid.\u201d The association is calling for talks with the government.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/16\/serbian-freelancers-protest-retroactive-taxes\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of freelancers and online workers marched through central Belgrade on January 16 to protest a recent law that requires them to pay income taxes for the last\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,75,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9321,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions\/9321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}