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Taxes target the rich, 150 individuals suspected of evasion!

2026-04-02 11:20:30Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Taxes target the rich, 150 individuals suspected of evasion!
Tax Investigation

The Tax Investigation Directorate during 2025 has extended the focus of control to high-net-worth individuals.

The investigations have focused mainly on individuals who generate income from social networks, own luxury cars or engage in financial market activity.

Tax data shows that 150 individuals have been verified out of the two-year target of 200 individuals for the period 2025–2026.

Of these, tax assessments have been completed for 46 individuals, resulting in ascertained liabilities for tax evasion in the total amount of 107,480,898 lek.

Meanwhile, 104 other individuals are still in the assessment process and it is expected that the relevant liabilities will be identified during 2026.

Likewise, 48 requests for control and 5 for re-control were handled, while 46 tax assessments were proposed to entities and 22 to individuals.

Of these, 19 audits have been completed with tax liabilities in the amount of 153,751,317 lek and 4 re-audits that have resulted in even higher liabilities, totaling 736,931,254 lek.

Likewise, 34 assessments against entities have identified liabilities in the amount of 18,179,956,752 lek, while 4 assessments against individuals have resulted in 17,059,033 lek in liabilities.

Some of these cases have been referred for criminal prosecution. Specifically, 7 checks and 4 assessments against individuals have been referred to the Prosecutor's Office for the criminal offense of "Hiding Income", while 23 other cases involving entities have also been sent for criminal prosecution.

In total, during 2025, 95 cases were referred to the Prosecutor's Office, mainly related to income concealment, tax evasion, and laundering of the proceeds of crime.

According to the summary of data, the value of liabilities identified from investigations under the provisions of the Criminal Code amounts to over 10.3 billion lek for articles related to concealment of income, 70.9 million lek for acts related to fraud and 517.7 million lek for money laundering cases.

The report also highlights an increase in the sophistication of evasion schemes, particularly through the use of fictitious invoices to unfairly benefit from VAT refunds.

In this context, fictitious commercial companies are included, mainly with the object of service activity, as it is more difficult to invoice the work performed than in cases where there are goods, and proving that the work was not performed and the service is fictitious is more difficult to prove.

These companies operate for a short time and are then suspended or left with unpaid debts.

This scheme also includes the concealment of partners, where de facto partners of commercial companies, who apply for VAT refunds or fictitious invoices, are hidden and do not come to light, but use other persons as fictitious partners, de jure, in the company's documentation./ ekofin


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