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Not only the elderly were in isolation, but also many businesses were "isolated" from their customers (Photo: ShutterStock)
The Walla system received complaints from self-employed people who claim that their bank accounts were seized by the tax authority, without receiving a written demand to return the extra corona grants they were given (that is, beyond what they were entitled to) and without being able to appeal them.
This morning a foreclosure was placed on the account of a couple from Ashkelon, owners of a kindergarten that closed due to the corona virus and left debts of NIS 500,000.
The couple received marginal corona grants totaling 37% and 38% instead of 40% as required, amounting to NIS 49,000 to the tax authority, which they are unable to repay.
Another case is that of a business owner who came to the bank last Thursday and discovered, to his surprise, that his bank account had been seized due to a debt for not returning corona grants amounting to tens of thousands of shekels.
He was required this morning at the Authority's offices to try and remove the foreclosure.
Tzamerat Avivi, vice president of Lahav: "There is an omission and a kidnapping here" (Photo: Ron Shalom)
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Zameret Avivi, one of the leaders of the self-employed struggle and the vice president of Lahav,
says that the tax authority is wronging the self-employed by not sending them demand letters and not giving them the opportunity to pay the debt or contest it.
"The tax authority relied on entering the personal area under the section of corona grants, without taking any active step to collect the debt," she says.
"No registered letters were sent on her behalf, therefore there is no reference that such were indeed sent.
"Because there was no advance notice, the self-employed did not have the right to the 45 days to file an appeal as written in the law, nor 48 hours to settle it with the assessor.
There is an omission and an abduction here, when the authority relies on the instruction they gave to the accountants to put pressure on the taxpayers and that's it.
They don't understand there that the independents who needed grants still haven't been able to recover from the corona and get back on their feet and are now taking another hammer to the head.
What's more, the former Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, promised that the grants would not be recovered, but did not change the law."
Avivi managed to insert into the Likud's coalition agreement with Otzma Yehudit a clause according to which there will be a complete halt to enforcement activity against the self-employed until legislation is passed on the matter.
"I expect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who promised before the elections to stop the collection of corona grants from the self-employed, to keep his word, to call for a complete and immediate halt to the enforcement actions and to cancel the foreclosures until a law is enacted on the matter."
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