BALKAN TREATMENT: You need to keep paid bills for directors for at least 10 years

How long do you have to keep your housekeeping accounts? Should I keep them at all?

The issues are those that are often asked by citizens, among whom there are also those who have done their duties properly, but it happened to them that after some time they received an order from the local waterworks for the allegedly unpaid bill. And evidence for this - they do not.

Dunja Mak, Legal Advisor to the Consumer Forum in Osijek, states that there is a deadline for each type of claim.

Thus, for example, in accordance with the Law on Obligatory Relations, the deadline for statute of limitations for electricity, heating, gas, water, telephone, radio and TV charges is one year.

"For a reserve and grave compensation, three years, parking fines and life insurance contracts have a deadline of five years, and a communal fee of six years," Mak said, adding that it was necessary to keep accounts longer than that period because it was not once happened that people keep an account for a year, after which they would throw it away, and the company would initiate enforcement within that period.

'If an offense is initiated within a year, it often knows to come to the citizen at the address after that period. Then it can happen that he does not have proof because he threw in an account, and he can not be called to a limitation because the company reacted until it came in.

Therefore, our advice is that citizens keep bills for at least ten years.

We advise everyone that they are kept for ten years because the decision on enforcement, if adopted, is outdated at the earliest for a decade, "concluded Mak.

• 23 Jan, 2018
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