On October 11, 2017 Esmeralda Ballesha, Coordination Unit of NBF was invited at Ora News TV program entitled “Money and Wealth” in a one on one discussion. During the interview the agriculture issue was tackled, giving the fact that the Albanian government has placed it, together with tourism sector, as top priorities. Ms. Ballesha, argued that the government should do something about the tax level as per NBA recommendation, which is also based on the European Directives. Agriculture VAT to be 10% .
The TV program moderator wished that for the implementation of this recommendation the same success as per tourism VAT recommendation implementation .
Taking into account the recent discussion on VAT threshold reduction, Ms. Ballesha insisted and argued why VAT threshold should be 2 million as per NBA recommendation. Therefore the Forum resent the NBA to the Minister of Finance and Economy.
Ms. Ballesha mentioned the recent positive step regarding the PPD as the government is opening new communication bridges with the interested stakeholders and gave an example of the invitation at the hearing session held by the Productive Activity, Trade and Environment Committee in the parliament of Albania.
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