Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) member of Parliament Damir Kajin on Friday criticised plans to raise the Value Added Tax rate from 23 to 25 percent.
Such a VAT rate would be a failure and it would turn into a tax imposed on the poor, Kajin told a news conference in Pazin.
The new government should also scrap plans for a tax reform which would include a new VAT rate and property tax which will again affect the most vulnerable groups, said Kajin, whose IDS is a partner in the new ruing coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
He said that a higher VAT rate had not been included in the Agenda 21 election platform of the SDP-led Kukuriku coalition and that it was why he had the right to express this "benevolent criticism".
