Democratic Party MP, Jorida Tabaku, has accused the government of violating the law on tax procedures by not making public the list of beneficiaries of tax debt forgiveness. Through a post on social networks, Tabaku has published the article of the law on Tax Procedures that obliges the government to make public the list of beneficiaries of tax forgiveness.
Tabaku's full post
For months, I have been requesting from the Ministry of Finance a list of taxpayers who are benefiting from the "Fiscal Peace" and selective debt forgiveness. A legitimate, institutional and necessary request for public transparency.
The Minister of Finance himself promised in the plenary session that this list would be made available to the Economy and Finance Committee. However, today the ministry officially stated that it cannot provide it.
This constitutes a clear legal violation. Article 25/1 of the Law on Tax Procedures clearly states that taxpayer identification data and unpaid obligations, for which forced collection procedures have been initiated, are NOT considered confidential. Therefore, the law ALLOWS publication.
In the past, until a few years ago, the tax administration itself regularly published lists of debtors. Today, it hides them.
Refusal to make this data available is not "preserving confidentiality", but a lack of transparency. Protection of clientelism. Favoritism of the powerful and penalization of ordinary citizens who pay every obligation.
Fiscal Peace cannot be the government's fiscal bargain.
Parliament has the right to know who benefits from amnesty and who is treated with double standards. Transparency is a legal obligation and a guarantee that the state is not used to reward clients and oligarchs.
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