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More than ten thousand self-employed people who have received a demand for a refund of the corona grants in recent months, refuse to return them and demand a full exemption from the payment demand. The Economics Committee discusses the issue


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Will more self-employed be required to return some of the corona grants?

More than ten thousand self-employed people who have received a demand for a refund of the corona grants in recent months, refuse to return them and demand a full exemption from the payment demand.

The Economics Committee is currently holding a meeting on the issue, after two months ago the chairman of the committee ordered the Tax Authority to delay the collection of the refund of the grants.

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Sonia Gorodisky

Monday, 25 October 2021, 12:39 Updated: 12:53

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A charged meeting is now being held in the Knesset's Economics Committee on the refund of corona grants given to the self-employed during the closure days of 2020 and early 2021.



These are small business owners whose annual turnover does not exceed NIS 300,000 per year - for example, guides, small shop owners, companies "Justice, freelancers, providers of various services such as air-conditioning technician and more. independents claim that they fail to comply refund tens of thousands of dollars and that this will lead to economic collapse.



last year at the time of filing the application for a grant Corona independents many could not accurately estimate the rate of decline in outstanding business, which Which later created a demand for the return of the grant. With the intervention of the chairman of the Economics Committee, MK Michael Bitton, the collection of the return of the grant was suspended by the Tax Authority, pending a decision on the matter.



Explain: The condition for receiving the grant is a 40% decrease in turnover compared to the previous tax year.

In order not to delay the payments of the grants, the state gave the possibility to apply for the corona grant even before submitting the periodic VAT reports, based only on the



self-employed person's

declaration of a decrease in turnover.

The grant application did not know how to accurately estimate in real time whether they had indeed reached the 40% drop in income threshold.

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Chairman of the Knesset's Economics Committee, MK Michael Bitton (Photo: Public Relations)

The self-employed have already returned NIS 370 million, leaving a debt of more than 270 million

Now, after examining the reports submitted, the state is demanding a refund of the grants paid to those who were not entitled to them, which is causing a stir among the self-employed.



Should the state give up on humanitarian grounds since many of them may indeed collapse economically if they have to pay tens of thousands of shekels or stick to the rigid and uniform law under which the tax authority operates? It should be noted that the Tax Authority proposes to retire the debt for payments, but the self-employed are not interested in this, because they want to cancel the demand for payment completely.



Tzameret Avivi, director general of the Tlan teachers' organization, classes and enrichment and active in the struggle for the independent

, says in a conversation with Walla! Money, "Some people are missing half a percent, so they take all the grants back. It's disproportionate, it's not fair. The self - employed are stormy about this thing, and we will not give up. We did not travel with the Seychelles. "



According to the self-employed, in some cases these are businesses that closed during 2020 and 2021, and they are unable to return the grants. The self-employed demand a "differential refund", that is, a partial refund of the grant in relation to the grant given in excess. It was further stated by the representatives of the self-employed that an exceptions committee has not yet been established that will allow an individual examination of each business individually.



Deputy Director of the Tax Authority Miri Savyon

explained in a discussion of the economic knowledge that is currently taking place: "Data on grant refunds - at this stage we are on a voluntary return stage, this is the way we thought it would be right to start over. "We are talking about businesses that received grants that they were not supposed to receive. Whoever wants is entitled to a spread of 18 payments."



Savyon added: "NIS 650 million is the amount they must return. Some have already paid. Some have preferred to return everything immediately or a shorter deployment. A total of more than 20,000 businesses returned a total of NIS 370 million returned to the state coffers. .

Some paid everything and some not everything.

There is a balance of 11,500 businesses that have a debt balance of a little over NIS 270 million. "

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