{"id":"SIG-BIH-038","country":"BiH","excerpt":"Oct 3 2023: first food donation exempt from VAT under amended law. Fondacija Mozaik/\"Niko gladan. Niko sam\" campaign with USAID. USAID Director Chubb: \"Before changes, cheaper for companies to destroy food than donate it.\" Partial counter-narrative — food VAT fixed; grants-as-services grey zone remains.","date_text":"03/10/2023","actor_text":"Fondacija Mozaik; USAID BiH","source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/monitoring-matrix-country-reports-for-bosnia-herzegovina/","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-003","incident_id":null,"observation":{"target":"Civil society sector; food donation framework","case_id":"BIH-038","country":"BiH","signal_id":"SIG-BIH-038","harm_track":"Track 2 — Social Trust Erosion","source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/monitoring-matrix-country-reports-for-bosnia-herzegovina/","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-003","source_type":"Official/Regulatory","tactic_code":"Successful legislative advocacy reversing specific VAT provision","target_type":"Sector","trigger_type":"TR-02: Civic Mobilization","actor_primary":"Fondacija Mozaik; USAID BiH","campaign_phase":"Counter-narrative","event_date_raw":"03/10/2023","channel_primary":"Official/Regulatory","date_confidence":"exact","confidence_notes":"Exact date October 3 2023 — primary source news report. Counter-narrative — partial victory only.","escalation_stage":"99","actor_type_primary":"CSO","source_text_excerpt":"Oct 3 2023: first food donation exempt from VAT under amended law. Fondacija Mozaik/\"Niko gladan. Niko sam\" campaign with USAID. USAID Director Chubb: \"Before changes, cheaper for companies to destroy food than donate it.\" Partial counter-narrative — food VAT fixed; grants-as-services grey zone remains.","consequence_category":"Social Trust Erosion","secondary_source_url":"","event_date_normalized":"2023-10-03","primary_narrative_code":"NF-00","primary_narrative_label":"Counter-narrative","secondary_narrative_code":"NF-03","institutional_consequence":"Food donation VAT exemption enacted","secondary_narrative_label":"Regulatory / AML Framing"},"response_id":"BIH-038","source_type":"Official/Regulatory","target_text":"Civil society sector; food donation framework","date_confidence":"exact","normalized_date":"2023-10-03","confidence_notes":"Exact date October 3 2023 — primary source news report. Counter-narrative — partial victory only.","secondary_source_url":""}