Filing Tax Returns Through New Portal “Freelancers” Possible with Account on eID.gov.rs and Through Mobile App ConsentID

All freelancers in Serbia can file tax returns, exercise their rights, but also meet their obligations in a timely fashion from now, in a simple way, through the “Freelancers” portal. Registration at the portal, as well as signing a tax return, can be done by using the mobile app ConsentID and signing in the cloud, it is said on the website of the Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment.

All those who earn income by providing services to another local or foreign natural person, that is, a foreign entrepreneur or company, for now on, can simply file and settle their tax obligations and get a more favorable tax treatment, it is added.

Registration at the “Freelancers” portal can be done in several ways, including through the mobile app ConsentID.

– To the users who don’t have the mobile app ConsentID, we recommend to first register a user account on the Portal eID.gov.rs, and then pick up the parameters for the mobile app Consent ID at the nearest post office, bank of local self-government unit, with a valid personal document, for free – it is said.

After entering the parameters and activating the app, the users register at the portal by entering their user name, that is, the email address, and additionally confirming the registration through the mobile phone, which enables the registration of the highest level of reliability. Also, in the same way, they will be able to use the electronic signature in the cloud.

With the free activation of the mobile app ConsentID, the use of the “Freelancers” portal does not require qualified certificate on the card or the installation of additional software, but just a mobile phone.

The portal contains a range of useful tools for all the existing, but also potential, freelancers – the test of self-evaluation to see if they meet the criteria to be considered freelancers, the calculator of tax obligations based on which they will choose one of the two taxation options, as well as a guide where they will find answers to the most important questions.

– The estimates are that the portal might initially be used by up to 100,000 freelancers who earn income working for other natural persons in Serbia or for natural and legal persons abroad – it is added.

Serbian citizens who live and work abroad and who need the mobile app ConsentID to register, may pick up the parameters for activation in the diplomatic-consular representations of the Republic of Serbia worldwide.

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