
Businesses are "immersed" in debt to the tax administration throughout the year 2023, creating a figure of new obligations which is recorded at 8.4 billion ALL or 80.8 million euros.
Official data from the General Directorate of Taxes provided by SCAN TV on the progress and state of unpaid tax obligations show that in January 2023, the stock of obligations was recorded at 146.8 billion ALL, while on December 31, 2023, this figure has increased to ALL 155.2 billion.
According to taxes, in the obligations of 155.2 billion ALL which are followed until December 31, 2023, the value of 13.95 billion ALL, which is in the judicial process, is included, where until the end of December 2023 it occupies 9% of the stock of liabilities to unpaid.
During the analyzed period, the stock of tax liabilities increased by 6%. From the above data, it results that the principal of accumulated tax liabilities constitutes about 61% of the total amount of tax liabilities, while the rest of these liabilities, the remaining 39%, consists of penalties and late interest.
In the stock of outstanding obligations divided by type of tax, VAT occupies the largest share in the stock of debt with 36% in the value of ALL 55.3 billion, followed by Profit Tax with 29% in the value of ALL 44.8 billion, the item Other with 15% worth 23.9 billion ALL, Social & Health Insurance with 15% worth 22.5 billion ALL, Withholding Tax with 4% worth 5.9 billion ALL, TAP with 1% worth 2.3 billion ALL and DIVA with 0.3 % worth 462 billion ALL.
The biggest increase in liabilities this year came from VAT, profit tax and social security. As for the age of the debt, it turns out that it is older than 2 years in the amount of ALL 127.7 billion, which is 82% of the total stock.