Borrowing for food

03/12/2012 00:00

The opposition leader, Edi Rama, accompanied by the head of Municipal
Unit no.1, Lindita Nikolli and Ilir Beqja, the Secretary of the Program
“For a National Rebirth”, witnessed at a mini-market in Shkoze, Tirana,
how citizens wrote their food purchases on the shop’s tab, unable to pay
it for the moment, while the Parliamentary Commission is discussing the
government’s draft-budget for 2013.

During the conversation with Rama, the owner of a mini-market declared that his meat products were rotten in the fridge due to the power cuts. Then he showed the tab with the money that the residents owned him, and the way how he pays the tax obligations to the state.

“They say that they have lowered taxes, but in fact they have increased. I’m in debt for paying taxes and I haven’t paid all of them”, the owner declared.

The Socialist leader, Edi Rama, reiterated the need to remove the small business tax, which he considered a death trap for the business.

“We will remove the small business tax. We think that this is an urgent need. We have made several appeals during this year for the government to remove them, and we will do the same for the Budget 2013 that is now passing in the Parliament. The decreasing buying power is suffocating the small businesses, and we think that the small business tax should be removed immediately. This has nothing to do with politics, but with the everyday food and the survival of many small businesses”, Rama declared.

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