site.btaVazrazhdane Urges Businesses to Delay VAT Payments to "Extortionist" Government

The Vazrazhdane party on Tuesday urged businesses to delay their VAT payments as much as possible in retaliation for what it termed "the pressure and extortion" affecting Bulgarian entrepreneurs.

Vazrazhdane is piqued by a proposal in the 2025 State Budget Bill which it interprets as an invitation to businesses to make donations to the government. The party also alleges that the National Revenue Agency is pressuring the transport companies which carried people to Vazrazhdane's violent protest on February 22 against the adoption of the euro in Bulgaria.

"Companies are called upon to donate to the Exchequer so it has money to spend and meet the deficit target for eurozone membership," the far-right pro-Russia party said in a press release.

"The Borissov regime, in addition to committing repression against citizens through police arbitrariness, is starting a massive racket against businesses," the press release said. The reference is to Boyko Borissov, the leader of the ruling GERB party who headed three earlier governments as prime minister.

“It is 2025 now, but it feels like 2020, when Borissov's police beat citizens behind the columns of the Council of Ministers building and businesses were subjected to systematic racketeering. It is now time to resist Borissov's mob by removing him from power for good and never allowing him to come back," Vazrazhdane said.