Retired public servants lose a month’s pay

An absolute mess is prevailing in the withholding of the special solidarity levy of 1% -4% in 2012 pensions for retired government as revealed by the certificates sent to them by the Finance ministry for this year's tax statement.

In some cases, the General Accounting Office failed to do what the ministry imposed all private enterprises in the country, pension funds and the public sector itself, to do to their active employees: withhold parts of pensions for the special solidarity levy during 2012, so that the liquidation income tax this year will not have to be paid by two pensions gathered together as an additional tax.

One can only wonder as to which pension funds and holdings the Finance ministry would use this year to pre-complete the E1 tax returns of approximately 400,000 civilian and military retirees, when their tax returns show one thing and the certificates for this year’s pensions another.

Officially, the ministry has not yet answered, but on questions of civil services to the General Accounting Office they say that "solidarity contribution is not on the certificate of 2012 because it started being deducted from retired public servants in April 2013 and not last year.

Unlike other employees and retirees, these certificates do not show the special levy amount because the corresponding tax was not withheld in 2012. Which means that the Finance ministry that made everyone prepay the fee for not receiving it all at once this year, did not care to do the same for political and military retirees.

This means they will have to pay the head tax for the main and supplementary pension, any other income they were receiving and additional property evidence, alla at once.