Bode: We’re not changing tax system
15/10/2011 00:00
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The Minister of Finances, Ridvan Bode, commented for the first time in
an interview for Top-Channel the voices who say that the government is about to abandon the flat tax and return to
the progressive one, which obliges rich people to pay more.
“We have refused the progressive tax, and we will continue with our proportional tax. There is no reason to change our tax system, which showed that it helps the economy and handled pretty well the most terrible crisis that the world has known in the last century. We have said that we will increase the taxes and we have no reason to do it. We will not do it only because somewhere else the taxes are increasing”, Bode emphasized.
This May, for the first time in history, Albania implemented a fiscal amnesty that pardoned some obligations, but did it go as the government had planned?
“We are waiting to see the informal part to make a good use from this amnesty and register”, Bode declared.
Due to the low progress, some business groups have asked to postpone the amnesty deadline, but the government said that this is impossible.
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