The debate between lawyer Lulzim Lushaj and Socialist Party MP Erion Braçe, in the Parliamentary Committee on Economy and Finance, has also moved to social networks, where the two have continued the clash with direct statements.
Following Braça's reaction, who says that Lushaj benefits millions from his professional activity without paying taxes and that this violates fiscal justice, the lawyer's response has also arrived.
In a post on social media, Lushaj describes the MP's reaction as a continuation of what he calls a threatening approach towards freelancers. He says that the latter are independent and that every day they have to earn the trust of their clients through their work, unlike politicians who get a vote once every four years.
Post by Lawyer Lulzim Alushaj
My friends sent me a publication on social networks, which Mr. Erion Braçe made remotely after the debate we had in the #ParliamentaryCommittee on Economy and Finance, continuing with the amateurish way of threatening the profits made by #FreeProfessionals like in the past, where they called anyone who was independent and opposed them a "kulak" or a "ballist".
You, Erion (if you addressed me as This and my colleagues as These), who write in capital letters and say small things, who "scold" during the day and sleep with the Party at night, who get votes with promises and then deceive the citizens of your country, who consider as an "enemy" anyone who does honest work and earns from their own sweat without reaching out to you and any other politician, you must understand that the Free Professional is voted for by his clients every day of his professional life (not every 4 years like your kind) and I repeat that this state that you and you have created is for example and not worse.
Watch the video below, the year 2020, the SP's electoral promise that around 90 thousand small businesses would be outside the VAT and income tax scheme by 2029. In 2024, there was an attempt to tax the liberal professions from 15 - 23%, the constitutional court intervened and the massacre was stopped.
Now some figures Erion that show why the state (if we are talking about taxes and income), which you created and where we should live too, is #stateofthenation
1. Nearly €260 million – collected from taxes and unrealized public investments.
2. Nearly €578 million – VAT gap.
3. Somewhere around 24.6% – uncollected VAT against potential liability.
4. €51,000 – new VAT threshold, or 50% – VAT threshold reduction.
Why are you still asking for taxes, Erion?
A government that taxes, levies and collects Albanians' money and then does not put it into the economy but demands and takes even more from our pockets makes it #stateless, Erion. Kill those professions and businesses that survive with hard work and sacrifice, you will still collect that money but you will not know how to realize it in policies and investments, Erion.
Freelance professionals, who are alone and very often in the face of any power, invite you and any other politician of any wing to come forward and talk to touch reality and reflect on the decisions you will make.
As for the opinion that citizens have on #stateperibret, follow their comments!
ps you can turn off the microphone but you can't turn off the minds and souls of hundreds of thousands of Free Professionals who are and will be independent and united against any injustice.