Prime Minister Edi Rama has shared a video message regarding the forgiveness of tax fines against businesses based on years.
" Hello. It's me again and again for the new year that is knocking. The elections are over and I remind you of this to those who said: 'Come on, don't just promise for votes and then forget'. But here we are. We have no elections ahead and not only do we not promise simply for votes, not only do we not forget, but those 83 mandates of that extraordinary trust that we received from the people have put us in working positions like never before and what I have pledged I consider the minimum of the Socialist Party's moral debt to the Albanians.
As we have written in the program that we presented before the elections, the fiscal package foreseen in next year's budget will open a new chapter between entrepreneurship and the popular administration. Fiscal peace, the fiscal peace promoted during the electoral process, is now a written package conceived to strengthen cooperation and increase trust between the tax administration and entrepreneurship and vice versa.
We will close old issues, precisely to support this trust and strengthen this cooperation. But how will the old issues be closed? The process will be carried out in two main forms. First, an amnesty will be offered to all enterprises with arrears. What will this amnesty be like?
A – Complete write-off of unpaid tax liabilities belonging to periods older than 10 years recorded in the tax accounts of entities.
B – Cancellation of 50% of liabilities for periods of 5-10 years if the remaining amount is paid in one go within a certain period along with the cancellation of fines and interest.
C – Cancellation of 25% of the liabilities for the same period, 5-10 years, if the amounts are paid in installments within 1 year, also with cancellation of fines and interest.
D – Cancellation of fines and late payment interest for periods of 1-5 years, provided that the tax, fee or contribution for the same period is paid in full.
On the other hand, all enterprises will be given the opportunity to correct inaccuracies in previous declarations in their financial statements. For the differences between the old declaration and the new one, i.e. the self-corrected one, only a 5% differential tax will be paid.
But it doesn't end there. How will we create a new relationship of trust and cooperation between the administration and entrepreneurship in the future? For a period that can extend up to 3 years, enterprises can enter into voluntary agreements with the tax administration where they agree to increase their taxable profit by 18% compared to the previous year. This means that this profit is taxed based on the law in force, while for any addition to this profit, the tax will be only 5%. During the time that the fiscal peace agreement is in force, enterprises will not be subject to tax audits related to profit tax.
It is a written peace, as I said, which will be discussed in the Assembly and no longer a peace simply proposed in an electoral program. It is a peace that, the enterprise, its representatives who met us during the electoral process looked at us with suspicion and some told me: 'You don't have to do this. It's very nice but it won't happen'. So this is what will happen. Because these are us, this is me, this is the Socialist Party of Albania ", said Rama.