Finance Ministry state secretary resigns over tax reform

Tilen Božič, a state secretary at the Finance Ministry in charge of tax policy, has tendered his resignation in the wake of Prime Minister Robert Golob's criticism of the job the ministry's team has been doing in selling the planned tax reform to the public.

The resignation on 29 March came a day after Golob indicated the government might even abandon plans for tax reform as he said that healthcare was the only field in urgent need of reform.

Golob told POP TV's weekly news show Preverjeno that the tax reform should perhaps better be scrapped in case it failed to increase...