Anti-Corruption Agency, Tax Administration ink agreement

BELGRADE - The Anti-Corruption Agency and the Tax Administration of the Serbian Ministry of Finance inked an agreement on Thursday on business-technical cooperation which will facilitate and accelerate the exchange of data and activities in the domain of prevention of corruption and money laundering.

The agreement, which binds the two government bodies to engage in a timely and coordinated planning and monitoring of the common obligations referring to availability, data exchange and designation of persons who can access data, was signed by Anti-Corruption Agency Director Tatjana Babic and Tax Administration Director Ljiljana Kovacevic.

They expressed satisfaction that the cooperation between these two government bodies will contribute to better and faster solution of cases, which is the main goal of the agreement.

“The agreement on cooperation which we have signed with the Tax Administration is of the outmost importance for the operation of the Agency and completing tasks in its competences, particularly when it comes to the control of financing of political entities, conflict of interests and processing of applications,” Babic told Tanjug.

In the way, the Agency will be able to initiate property assessment and, what is particularly important, to compare data in the reports of public officials with the ones it gets from the Tax Administration, Babic said.

Kovacevic told Tanjug that the cooperation between the two government bodies has existed since the establishment of the Agency, when the two bodies were bound by an agreement to cooperate in line with the highest professional standards and in the interest of the society.

“With a wish to promote mutual cooperation, we have undertaken a number of...

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