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Ignorant or Liar/ How the Minister of Finance deceived Parliament about the taxes he forgave coastal oligarchs

Ignorant or Liar/ How the Minister of Finance deceived Parliament about the

The Minister of Finance, Petrit Malaj, lied publicly in Parliament, trying to hide the maneuver through which he forgave millions of euros in taxes to oligarchs building on the coast.

Asked by Democratic Party MP Jorida Tabaku about the value of the missing revenues in the budget as a result of the blocking of new reference prices for more than two years, Malaj responded like Shvejku.

"The infrastructure impact tax is a tax that builders pay based on the investment estimate they will make, not based on the reference price. So, in other words, we are not giving anyone an advantage. What is happening is that we are implementing the legal framework," Malaj said.

This in the photo below is the relevant article of the local tax law, which specifies the basis on which the infrastructure impact tax is paid.

Ignorant or Liar/ How the Minister of Finance deceived Parliament about the

"In the case of constructions intended for residential purposes or for commercial and service units, which are carried out by construction companies, the rate of the infrastructure impact tax is 4 percent to 8 percent of the sales price per square meter. The sales price per square meter is based on the reference value of the market value, according to the definitions issued by an act of the Council of Ministers," states the relevant article of the law.

Since the Minister of Finance may have problems understanding the laws, there is a simpler explanation from the Municipality of Tirana. 

Ignorant or Liar/ How the Minister of Finance deceived Parliament about the

So the infrastructure impact tax is 8 percent of the reference prices set by the government and not 8 percent of the investment budget as the Minister of Finance publicly misleads. 

This is not a harmless answer, but a lie that hides millions of euros in tax exemptions for construction oligarchs, through a mafia scheme, which Capital denounced two months ago. ( Read here ).

But the Minister of Finance continues to lie publicly. The only dilemma now is this; does Albania have an ignorant Minister of Finance who does not know the tax laws or a Minister of Finance who lies as a servant of the oligarchs? In any case, this is a big problem.

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