Business, “fearing” the fiscal amnesty

The businessmen oppose almost every key clause of the law, but the hottest point is the one of the guaranty.

“Bode says that even after declaring your activity, they will inspect you after one year and if the declaration is not according to the law, you will not be anymore eligible for the amnesty. This is risky”, declared Nikolin Jaka, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce.

The business’s fear regards article no 22 of the draft that the government proposed. This article can cause voluntary business declarations trigger investigations by the antimafia law. The Chamber of Commerce clarifies the result of this law.

“Because of this article, the businesses will be excluded and suspicions on the goal of this law will rise”, Jaka said.

Besides the controversy on safety and fees, businesses and the government have another disagreement, regarding the distribution of the funds that will be collected by this process.  

Nikolin Jaka says that according to the Chamber of Commerce calculations, if the government will take in consideration the business recommendations, this process could generate more than 1 billion Euros in the budget.

“We have proposed that 65% of this fund should go to the budget and 35% to a grant that stimulates the Albanian enterprising in agriculture and tourism, in the form of soft loans with interests no higher than 2-3%”, Jaka said.

The government rushed the law to the parliament with accelerated procedures, and it could be approved this week. By now, the amnesty has lost the political consensus, which harms the credibility of this process.

If this law will be approved after this persistence of the government, fiscal amnesty would lose the consensus and this would be the warned failure of this law that has been in the center of controversies for many years. 

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