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Fiscal exemptions for luxury hotels spark clashes between Braça and Klos!

2025-01-22 14:37:15Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Fiscal exemptions for luxury hotels spark clashes between Braça and Klos!
Erion Braçe/ Blendi Klosi

In the Economy Committee, there was a clash between two socialist MPs, Erion Braçe and Blendi Klosi , regarding a draft law proposed by Klosi, which aims to extend the deadline for exemption from profit tax for luxury 4- and 5-star hotels until 2026.

Brace has requested transparency and information regarding this draft law, noting that this is a fiscal favor that should be openly announced and it should be understood which entities are being granted this privilege.

He demanded to know how many entities benefited from this measure, how the profit declared by these entities was distributed, and whether this profit was reinvested or transferred abroad.

Braçe:  I want you to provide us with information, today, that it has become a constant process that we make requests to the committee and they come to us after the law is approved in parliament, how many entities have benefited from this preferential measure, or this privilege, if we have a list, you said that they are being developed not in urban areas. From everything that has been said in the media, most of them are concentrated in Tirana and if you can help me with the list, if there is one in Velipojë, Shëngjin, Durrës, Divjakë, Golem, Darëzezë, Vlorë inside, Palasë, are there 11, if there are 11, does it include the entire line where tourism takes place, in Dhërmi, Livadh, Ksamil, Saranda. How much is the declared profit of those who have operated during this period in the territory of Albania, how much have they declared as profit, which we have excluded from the tax part, what has this declared profit been done afterwards, has it been reinvested or accumulated as assets of the operators or worse, reinvested outside this country, how many projects are in process, are in progress. What benefits do we have for four and five star hotels? Do we have privileges? Is this the only one or are there others?

Klosi:  There are many.

Braçe:  There are many, but why don't you tell us? I want to know when these fiscal incentives were made. Does this proposal come with the revenue strategy that you have approved and made public, the IMF is one of the arguments that should be evaluated, asked. Do the IMF and the Bank of Albania have any opinion? On the other hand, Klosi defended the proposal by explaining that hotels with special status of international brands are controlled investments and that they have a positive impact on the tourism sector, attracting foreign investments and developing tourism in Albania. He emphasized that this is a model that other countries in the region are also following and explained that this fiscal favor is a way to stimulate investments in this sector.

Klosi:  What are the projects they have, or will you allow me to answer Tabaku and Spaho. Separating the two categories, technical and political, we are all in politics here at the service of citizens. 5-star status is given to those hotels that are similar to the European Union or the world, to be called a brand, they have 3 similar ones in the EU or 7 in the world. An investor who enters into an agreement with a brand is not allowed to make investments as he pleases, they are hotels with 100 rooms at least, it is not the whole industry, this is how we have built it, the locomotive that attracts the entire tourism sector, I am sorry that you understand where the difference is, the whole Region has this.

Braçe : Let's spin it however we want, this is a fiscal favor and whenever there is a fiscal favor, there is a need for transparency, no one should worry or misuse it who needs transparency, these hotels have not received a fiscal favor, it should have been said that there was a completely different opinion on this very thing, it seems clear that the fiscal favor that we were given earlier than in 2029, you did it to you, even before you and therefore to us who did this earlier, the favor was going to those who actually did not benefit from it, transparency is so that we all understand who is being given a fiscal favor. The tourism sector is not closed, but connected to all sectors.

Brace has insisted on more transparency regarding the beneficiaries of these fiscal incentives, requesting detailed information on the projects that are in progress and the impact that these favors have on the development of tourism and the Albanian economy.


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