Post by segnic on Jan 18, 2010 19:43:07 GMT 1
Hi everyone,
I am new to this forum and certainly wished I had discovered it earlier as loads of useful and enlightening topics here.
Anyway, a friend and I bought a little sunny place in Croatia almost 4 years ago now, as a company. Due to changing personal circumstances we decided it was time to sell.
We finally found a foreign buyer who wanted to buy our place as a d.o.o also and after some absolutely crazy and costly bureaucratic hassle (might tell the story some other time, could be useful to some), we finally signed the deeds.
Now here is where I would like to receive your advices and feedbacks:
After the place got sold, we obviously wanted to get our money back but hit yet another hurdle: apparently we were meant to get a number from the National Bank of Croatia when we brought the money in the country to purchase the flat and opened the account. Nobody told us and we did not know, so… we don’t have that number.
The PBZ, which holds our account, basically told us this money was not ours, it was the company’s and that due to the lack of number, the fact that because we did not have that number we could not prove where our money came from in the first place, then we could not touch that money! And that if we tried, “Zagreb” would be flagged, and that it was our problem and no advice could be given and so on…! After a lot of aggravation and with the help of our normally not very clued-up accountant we did eventually manage to “sneak out” our “capital” from the FINA and brought it back with us.
Now we still have some money there. We also have some taxes to pay we think (which? we don’t quite know apart from Capital Gain Tax? If anybody can tell us what to expect that would be great).
We are wondering whether we can pay these taxes when we finally know the amounts, and then somehow get whatever is left via FINA again? Or has anybody ever tried to get their money out from PBZ or another bank without that National Bank of Croatia dreaded number??
Any advice appreciated!
Also….. We still have a company that probably nobody is ever going to want to buy from us…. After finding out the hassle, costs and time needed to close a company and since we don’t have the “number” and so on, I’ll be honest, we are just soooooooo tempted to just pay what needs paying, tell our accountant to forget about us and just leave and forget that company…. forever ….if you see what I mean? Any likelihood that the Croatian authorities somehow get back to us do you think.
It may be naughty but so fed up I find it hard to care anymore….
Looking forward to your feedbacks,
Segnic
I am new to this forum and certainly wished I had discovered it earlier as loads of useful and enlightening topics here.
Anyway, a friend and I bought a little sunny place in Croatia almost 4 years ago now, as a company. Due to changing personal circumstances we decided it was time to sell.
We finally found a foreign buyer who wanted to buy our place as a d.o.o also and after some absolutely crazy and costly bureaucratic hassle (might tell the story some other time, could be useful to some), we finally signed the deeds.
Now here is where I would like to receive your advices and feedbacks:
After the place got sold, we obviously wanted to get our money back but hit yet another hurdle: apparently we were meant to get a number from the National Bank of Croatia when we brought the money in the country to purchase the flat and opened the account. Nobody told us and we did not know, so… we don’t have that number.
The PBZ, which holds our account, basically told us this money was not ours, it was the company’s and that due to the lack of number, the fact that because we did not have that number we could not prove where our money came from in the first place, then we could not touch that money! And that if we tried, “Zagreb” would be flagged, and that it was our problem and no advice could be given and so on…! After a lot of aggravation and with the help of our normally not very clued-up accountant we did eventually manage to “sneak out” our “capital” from the FINA and brought it back with us.
Now we still have some money there. We also have some taxes to pay we think (which? we don’t quite know apart from Capital Gain Tax? If anybody can tell us what to expect that would be great).
We are wondering whether we can pay these taxes when we finally know the amounts, and then somehow get whatever is left via FINA again? Or has anybody ever tried to get their money out from PBZ or another bank without that National Bank of Croatia dreaded number??
Any advice appreciated!
Also….. We still have a company that probably nobody is ever going to want to buy from us…. After finding out the hassle, costs and time needed to close a company and since we don’t have the “number” and so on, I’ll be honest, we are just soooooooo tempted to just pay what needs paying, tell our accountant to forget about us and just leave and forget that company…. forever ….if you see what I mean? Any likelihood that the Croatian authorities somehow get back to us do you think.
It may be naughty but so fed up I find it hard to care anymore….
Looking forward to your feedbacks,
Segnic