Monopolies on citizens’ damage

Right after the stamps, the Ministry of Finances gave in concession the scanning service, the fuel inspection and a series of others.

The total cost of what Albanian citizens pay for them each year mounts to 100 million EUR, or 1% of the Gross Domestic Product.

“On one hand we have informality in frightening numbers, and on the other we have a frightening abuse with the public service”, declared Nikolin Jaka, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Tirana.

Recently, the new government added another one, that of customs assistance, which was given through a closed agreement to the British “Crown Agents” for 4.25 million EUR each year.

“They are still going on with these procedures. Business wants real transparency for every procedure that the government can do, same as in finding the illegal procedures of the former government”, Jaka declared.

This money goes to foreign companies without making any investment in Albania. But business representatives say that besides this, concessions have failed even to improve the services or lowering of corruption.

“We are seeing with regret that not only we don’t have any improvement, not only from the companies that took the concessions, or even the government that gave them. We haven’t seen a demonstration of the feedback given by the business representatives for these services”, Jaka declared.

Nikolin Jaka says that this situation is unacceptable and for this he proposes two methods. The first one is to cancel the concessions that were given against the law.

“On the other hand we have a silence of the current government for the rentability tax that we proposed. We have companies that have safe profits and pay just 10%. We have asked a rentability tax for all monopolies, especially for public services”, Jaka declared.

100 million EUR each year that citizens give for concessions is 30% of the annual budget for public administration salaries.

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