- country
- BiH (RS)
- date text
- Mar 2023
- actor text
- RS Tax Inspectorate
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-003
- confidence notes
- AML-by-practice: the foreign agent registry that failed legislatively (BIH-015) is implemented through administrative inspection. Demanding 5-year donor lists during tax audits achieves the same data collection a foreign agent registry would have. Selective enforcement (CSOs fined, football clubs ex | Date refined: wave of unannounced inspections peaked March-June 2023. Strategically timed alongside public/parliamentary debates on Draft Law on Special Registry (foreign agent law). Key tactic: "5-year donor list" demand — inspectors shifted from standard audits to demanding exhaustive international donor lists dating back 2018-2019. Sources: BCSDN Monitoring Matrix BiH 2023; CPCD/TI BiH joint statement mid-2023.
- date confidence
- month_year
- excerpt
- RS tax inspectors conduct unannounced inspections of multiple CSOs, specifically demanding lists of all international donors over the past 5 years — framing foreign funding as inherently suspicious. Inspections target larger, more vocal organizations. Fines are 'unreasonably high' and inspectorates 'never issue advisory measures, only sanctions.' Youth organization fined for last 5 years while football clubs owe millions with no consequences.
- id
- SIG-BIH-020
- incident id
- BIH-020
- normalized date
- 2023-03-01
- observation
- country
- BiH (RS)
- actor primary
- RS Tax Inspectorate
- actor type primary
- Prosecutor/Judicial
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-003
- campaign phase
- Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization
- campaigns served
- BIH-CAMP-003; BIH-CAMP-004
- case id
- BIH-020
- channel primary
- Official/Regulatory
- confidence notes
- AML-by-practice: the foreign agent registry that failed legislatively (BIH-015) is implemented through administrative inspection. Demanding 5-year donor lists during tax audits achieves the same data collection a foreign agent registry would have. Selective enforcement (CSOs fined, football clubs ex | Date refined: wave of unannounced inspections peaked March-June 2023. Strategically timed alongside public/parliamentary debates on Draft Law on Special Registry (foreign agent law). Key tactic: "5-year donor list" demand — inspectors shifted from standard audits to demanding exhaustive international donor lists dating back 2018-2019. Sources: BCSDN Monitoring Matrix BiH 2023; CPCD/TI BiH joint statement mid-2023.
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative + Social Trust Erosion
- date confidence
- month_year
- enabler status
- Active
- enabler type
- Financial Surveillance Capacity
- escalation stage
- 4
- event date normalized
- 2023-03-01
- event date raw
- Mar 2023
- harm track
- Both
- institutional consequence
- Financial surveillance; Chilling effect
- primary narrative code
- NF-03
- primary narrative label
- Financial Corruption / AML
- secondary narrative code
- NF-01
- secondary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- secondary source url
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bill-registering-ngos-will-increase-government
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-020
- source text excerpt
- RS tax inspectors conduct unannounced inspections of multiple CSOs, specifically demanding lists of all international donors over the past 5 years — framing foreign funding as inherently suspicious. Inspections target larger, more vocal organizations. Fines are 'unreasonably high' and inspectorates 'never issue advisory measures, only sanctions.' Youth organization fined for last 5 years while football clubs owe millions with no consequences.
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- tactic code
- Regulatory / Financial Inspection (foreign donor list demands)
- target
- Multiple CSOs in RS (larger and more vocal organizations targeted)
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-08: Proactive / Ambient
- secondary source url
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bill-registering-ngos-will-increase-government
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- target text
- Multiple CSOs in RS (larger and more vocal organizations targeted)
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