Dear Sir or Madam,
I propose to abolish value added tax on the purchase of equipment intended for protection and rescue.
Firefighters and other protection and rescue services are financed by the municipality and the State. Often, the funds earmarked for this purpose by the municipality and the State are not sufficient to provide the much-needed equipment for the quality performance of the public firefighting service and other protection and rescue tasks. For this reason, volunteer fire brigades, in particular, make efforts to attract various donors and to organise firefighters' fetes, at which the funds raised are used to purchase new equipment. By raising funds themselves in this way, they are doing the work of the State, which could ensure that the protection and rescue units receive sufficient funds.
When purchasing equipment with these funds, the State has to pay value added tax, which is a significant additional financial burden on the protection and rescue units.
Similarly, value added tax must be deducted from the funds allocated by the municipality (read State), and thus the money just circulates from one State account to another.
This step would make a significant contribution to the equipment of the protection and rescue units and would give new vigour to the work of the Slovenian volunteer units, those of which we are always saying that they are our pride and that their numbers are the envy of the whole of Europe.
Help!!!