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Sofia's top tax people axed for being lax

Mon, Jun 13 2011 17:30 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Sofia's top tax people axed for being lax

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Just a few days after a new head of the National Revenue Agency in Sofia was appointed, the entire top management structure of the agency in Bulgaria's capital city was dismissed for ineffectiveness in supervising tax and social security collection and for failing to prevent fraud, the agency said on June 13 2011.

A new concept and structural changes would be announced within weeks, the agency said.

A few days previously, Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov indicated that unless tax collection and action against evasion of value-added tax were improved, the head of the agency, Krassimir Stefanov, could lose his job.

The new chief of the agency in Sofia - the country's largest tax collection area - Boiko Atanasov, was previously Stefanov's deputy.

After Dyankov's statements, Stefanov has promised rapid reforms within the agency. Stefanov said that Atanasov had been given a free hand to make changes in management.

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