On October 12, 2017 the Chamber of Commerce organized a meeting with their board members, including PBWA and ARA (at the same time NBF member)and other CCI members to discuss with the Enkelejda Pipa, VIP Taxpayers’ Director at the General Tax Directorate. In this meeting was also present Ms. Esmeralda Ballesha, CU of NBF.
During the discussion Ms. Pipa stated that the new tax work plan aims reducing (from 30% to 25%) on-site inspections compared to office inspections. They will focus more in informing and communicating with businesses and the performance test for VIP directorate inspectors will have a special importance.
The businesses that were present at the meeting supported the initiative to reduce VAT thresholds as this will reduce the informality, but it is uncertain whether the threshold will be 2 million as per NBA recommendation (C.C.1).
CU during this discussion emphasized some key topics, which are also NBA recommendations:
– Tax inspection selections should be based 100% on the risk assessment and be implemented in all regions of Albania (recc. A.A.1 and A.A.2)
– Organize continuous regional public information panels with business groups to regularly update them on amendment of legal acts and improvement of the tax procedures; (A.B.3)
– Regarding inspectors’ ethical and professional capacity a performance evaluation should be established and this should include all inspectors (A.F.3). In this way inspectors’ trainings will influence effectively in their professional and ethical growth.
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