Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Wednesday dismissed a possibility of imposing a real estate tax, saying that his HDZ party would have mentioned it in its election platform had it planned such a move.

In response to the claim by the leader of the Social Democrats, Davorko Vidovic, that the announced registry of households would usher in a property tax, Plenkovic said during question time in Parliament that the HDZ would have mentioned this possibility in its election program had it planned such a tax.

Plenkovic said that the aim was to develop a modern and digitalised public administration, while the registry of households and families was a tool to provide a real picture of society and  enable better targeting of support schemes.