Director of the Office for Information Technology and e-Government of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Mihailo Jovanovic, announced that as of that day, it was possible, through the mobile application "My LPA" (local tax administration), for all taxpayers to perform a centralized inquiry into the property tax status for the whole country via mobile phone.

Mr. Jovanovic explained that the "My LPA" application was free and was available for both Android and iOS users.

According to him, this is the first mobile phone application developed and published by the Office of Information Technology and e-Government and it is another link in the implementation of a comprehensive reform of the public administration system and turning it into an efficient service of citizens, but also the first step in the development of the m-Government.

We plan to constantly develop and improve the application, but also to develop a platform through which all public administration services will be accessible via mobile phone, he explained. 

Through the said mobile application, the status query for property tax is enabled by using a username and password, while the taxpayer can personally submit the request for the username and password to the competent local tax administration (LPA).

If a person is a taxpayer in several local tax administrations, it is sufficient to open an account in only one of them. The recommendation to individuals when opening an account is to contact the local tax administration by place of residence, and to legal entities by place of the head office.

The launch of the lpa.gov.rs Unified Local Tax Administration's Portal for the Uniform Information System earlier this year has enabled citizens, businesses and the state to just click to obtain information about their property taxes and other source public revenues, to file a request for tax assessment of property of natural and legal persons, as well as to make electronic payments of incurred liabilities. 

The convenience of filing electronically the request for determining property tax is especially important for legal entities, as they have to repeat this process every year.

Also, thanks to the LPA Portal, our citizens living abroad can easily, quickly and free of charge check their tax liabilities and settle them from anywhere in the world. 

So far, approximately 55,000 legal entities and 350 natural persons have completed the registration of their property electronically through the LPA Portal, while the number of electronic payment transactions has been completed by hundreds. 

Source: Radio and Television of Serbia , “Blic” daily, “Evening News” daily and Coordination Body