A proposition made by the Supreme State Audit for having more access in
the tax data has created a constitutional stalemate for the new law on
this institution.
Erjon Brace, Chairman of the Commission of Economy: “You want to affect even physical persons and private subjects. It cannot be approved…
Bujar Leskaj, chairman of the Supreme State Audit: I am requesting an audit for the tax assessment…
Brace: What will you use as comparison to check if it is regular? Business declarations? This cannot happen.
The SSA and the Tax Directory have an institutional and legal conflict which has lasted for the past years, to the point that the Tax office is not allowing the SSA to inspect any document.
“This is the answer of a Tax Branch Director: ‘Your audit falls against the law and the instruction for its implementation, since the Regional Tax Directory gives no information about taxpayers, about their payments, their obligations and debt records, or about companies that have been registered and certified, etc”, Leskaj declared.
The Tax Office has turned into an institution that cannot be audited, and this has increased concerns for abuses, such as the case with the VAT reimbursement. The former Minister of Finances, Ridvan Bode, proposed that the SSA should have access to the declarations of private subjects, but with two limitations.
“The first limitation is that there should be no fiscal visits at companies. The second limitation is that recommendations should not include those for private subjects who are related to reassessments or revenue growth”, Bode declared.
The Commission couldn’t vote the law due to the stalemate created by the tax law, and decided to address the issue to the Commission of Laws. But the issue with the tax system might remain a hot spot of this draft, and a huge public concern as regards the debate of who is the guardian of the fiscal administration, which is often involved in financial scandals.
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