Newsletter January 2021

Dear friends of early music and Seviqc Brežice festival!

At the beginning of the new year, I wish you all the best. I wish you to continue to follow our festival, I will be happy if we meet in person at our events in August 2021.

Despite unexpected problems, we performed Seviqc Brežice 2020 perfectly and with all the brilliance. Although we announced the program just a good month before the start due to the pandemic, visitors enthusiastically welcomed it.

I would like to thank the deputies of the National Assembly for Article 60 of the Intervention Measures Act to help mitigate the consequences of the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic (ZIUPOPDVE), which raises the percentage of personal income tax for donations from 0.5 to 1%. According to the second indent of Article 128 (application of Article 60), our donors do not need to supplement anything, because part of the personal income tax for donations is automatically doubled.

As a non-governmental organization in the public interest, we are entitled to have citizens give us a portion of their income tax. Ars Ramovš is one of the higher-ranking organizations eligible for this benefit. According to FURS data for 2019, we are in 380th place among 5,554 recipients. A personal income tax donation was made by 149 taxpayers (average 102.25). The amount of all donations we received is EUR 2,328.93 (average EUR 1,122.93). We received EUR 15.63 per donor (average EUR 11.03). Personal income tax donations are a direct support of citizens to our efforts, so it is a kind of reference for the interested public.

I would also like to thank all of you who have donated part of your income tax to our institution. Those of you who are not yet, however, I invite you to donate to us a part of their income tax that the state waives in favour of organizations like us. The tax authority shall consider the applicable requirements at its disposal on 31 December of the year for which personal income tax is assessed. For 2020, it shall take into account the applicable requirements at its disposal as of 31 May 2021. The requirement shall remain in force until the tax authority receives a new request or withdraws the request.

The taxpayer may submit the form for the allocation of part of personal income tax electronically via the electronic business services FURS eDavki, in person or by post at the competent financial office. The new donation form is expected to be available on eDavki on 14 January 2021.

Best regards to all of you,

Yours

Klemen Ramovš