SP, taxes depending on revenues

“People with wages under 20.000 ALL will be excluded from taxes. There’s a threshold for people who are paid 20.000 to 40.000 ALL, who will pay 10% over 40.000 ALL wages, 15% for higher than 700.000, 18% for 100.000 and 20% for more than 150.000 ALL”, declared the Socialist Mimi Kodheli.

The opposition says that this scheme will ease the life of the Albanian average families with 3000 ALL each month.

“If the Albanian citizens pay 3600 ALL tax for a 40.000 wage, our scheme will bring it to not more than 13-14.000. This means that we will return to the Albanian families around 30.000 ALL monthly”, declared the Socialist MP Arben Ahmetaj.

The Minister of Finances says that progressive tax is a failed policy, and it would increase tax evasion, making people with higher wages to hide their revenues.

The majority rejected all Socialist propositions for the budget, including the removal or decrease of VAT for basic food products.

“You are opening way to the tax evasion, because that was the administration that you left behind, an administration of corruption and smuggling”, Bode declared.

The Parliament voted the Budget 2012 with 71 votes of the majority. 50 MPs of the opposition opposed the draft.

The Budget 2012 foresees 396 billion ALL in government expenses and 355 billion in revenues. The difference will be financed through the new debt that will be taken in the next year, with 3% of the national production.

The new budget is only 1.5% bigger than the Budget 2011, with the government cutting 18 billion ALL in July. The 2012 Budget doesn’t go beyond the 5% growth. As for the investments, there will be no increase and will remain same as in 2011, at 70 billion ALL. The revenues are predicted to be around 252 billion ALL.

The Socialists and Democrats discussed the draft-budget last week, with the opposition presenting 12 conditions for voting the draft. The government refused, and the Parliamentary Commission of Economy is now expected to present the final relation, which foresees fund movement within the respective institutions.

Road Code, Parliament votes it with consensus

Continuing the consensus reached one week ago between the Majority and the Opposition, the Parliament voted with 115 votes the amends of the Road Code.

The opposition expressed some concerns with some special articles of the Code, for which answered the Minister of Transports, Sokol Olldashi.

The Road Code was passed after the Aerial and Maritime Codes, laws that required 3/5 of the votes, which the politics had been unable to vote with consensus for more than one year. In the beginning of the session, the MPs held one minute of silence for the writer and former MP, Sabri Godo.

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