Fiscal stamp monopoly

“None of the European Union countries have a fiscal stamp for beers, but since it is done, we want at least to have a lower fee for the fiscal code, from 22 EUR to 2 EUR without VAT”, says Luan Bregasi, President of Biznes Albania.

Bregasi said that the concession agreement is abusive and that there are elements going to the absurd, by protecting the private operator’s interests and damaging the state.

“The value of what our country is taking is smaller than the concessionary, which means that the state has a huge customs structure to supervise the fiscal stamp of the private concessionary. This is a craziness of our law, because there is only one market operator. The price is very high and unaffordable for our industries”, Bregasi declared.

Genc Ruli, Parliament Member of the Democratic Party, member of the government when the concession was given, says that part of the claims coming from businesspeople are unfounded.

“They say no other country does this, but we have Turkey, which has an even higher tax. The state’s income comes from the excise, not the stamp. If sale production has increased, excise has also increased and this is what the state aims”, Ruli declared.

The Chairman of the Producing Activity Commission, Eduard Shalsi, reminded that the majority has made a promise when they were in opposition, and they will keep it.
 
“We promised to undo corruptive and abusive concessions. The cigarette fiscal tax in Kosovo is 2 EUR, in Albania is 20. This is unique in the world and its only goal seems to have been not the formalization of the market, but the establishing of a business that profits abusively”, Shalsi declared.

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