AMCHAM NEWS & EVENTS
Summer 2017 / Issue 54
Ivana Dojcinovska–Stojanovic delivered
a Career Planning workshop
On May 11th, as part of the Guest speaker pro-
gram with the Faculty of Economics Career Center
(Cyril & Methodius University), Ivana Dojcinovs-
ka-Stojanovic, HR Director at Wabtec MZT AD
Skopje, delivered a Career Planning session before
the Faculty’s students.
AmCham and Faculty of Economics Career
Center started their cooperation in 2015, allowing
working professionals to offer formal and informal
training on job searching strategies, interviewing
skills, networking, public speaking/presentation
skills and teamwork to the faculty’s most ambitious
and knowledge-hungry students.
Deloitte on Double Taxation & Social Security
Contributions for Expat Staff
On May 9th, Elena Atanasovska, Tax Consultant at Deloitte
Skopje, shared her expertise on overcoming challenges
related to companies reducing their tax and social contribution
obligations with respect to expat staff. She provided concrete
examples of cases she had managed where companies were
unable to take advantage of international agreements that
Macedonia had signed in order to prevent expat staff from
paying twice for a single benefit. She also recommended that
companies obtain the Macedonian Public Revenue Office’s
official confirmation of the tax treatment of specific cases, given
their very limited experience in this sphere. The group agreed
that companies should insist on these benefits and push for
the responsible public institutions to fully implement them.
Later in the session, Borce Smilevski briefly introduced
attendees to measures being introduced in over 100 countries
to prevent Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) and fielded a
number of questions regarding the application of such mea-
sures in Macedonia.
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