The largest business organization in Albania, Konfindustria, believes that instead of increasing taxes in the country, there must be an economic and financial administration.

“The growth of budget incomes should have been based on efficient tax administration and economic development and not on the increase of taxes. Tax policies cannot turn into an objective in itself by meeting the short term objectives of the state budget and by risking the long term development of the national economy. I’m sorry to say that Albania doesn’t have a Ministry of Economy, because there’s a lack of economic assessment for the effects of the tax package on each sector and national economy in general”, says Gjergj Buxhuk, head of Konfindustria.

Buxhuku also addresses the requests of the organization that he represents: “Reintroduction of the flat tax at a maximum rate of 10% for all businesses that operate in open markets. A reintroduction of flat tax on all personal incomes”.

Buxhuku also says that construction permits must also be facilitated: “The full suspension of construction permits has taken the industry of construction materials, industry of construction and the employment of people in this sector into a collapse”.