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The Supreme State Audit Office, in successive reports, especially when it comes to local government, concludes that there is a lack of revenue in the budget when it comes to property.
Its mismanagement, or problematic drafting of lease contracts. This also includes cases where the public entity turns out to be the lessee.
"Renting unused buildings or surplus facilities that state institutions and state structures have is almost too cheap," said Suzana Guxholli, an economics expert.
"What is being noticed and which is very evident recently, whether by the executive or by the local government, is the characteristic that state property, public property, public assets, are being used in a spirit that has nothing to do with economic efficiency or economic logic and, above all, with the integrity of a process ," declared Arianita Brahaj, an economics expert.
"We see rental contracts with market-level figures. In fact, studies need to be done and the market is the same both when it gives and when it takes," said Suzana Guxholli, an economic expert.
The audit conducted at the General Directorate of the State Cadastre Agency in 2022 highlights alarming data. Only 9% of state properties are registered. This fact makes it difficult, sometimes even impossible, to manage them in the interest of citizens, bringing missing revenues to the state budget. Often, this has been seen as a scheme to favor privatization.
The audit found that at both the central and local levels, the Albanian state has not identified, inventoried and registered its properties and there are no statistics on the real number of properties, because a property reflected in the inventory lists of state institutions consists of several properties. It results from the central and local institutions that only 9% of state properties have been registered.
"There is a tendency for what is state property, public property, whether land or any asset, to be given the opportunity for liberalization, a rapid transition with little economic efficiency, therefore with few economic fees for privatization to the private sector," said Arianita Brahaj, an economic expert.
"A report should be made, an analysis should be done, they should study, they should know clearly what they have and what they don't have and how they should treat it, they should sell it, they should rent it out because the properties that municipalities have are a healthy basis for the economic development of the municipalities," said Agron Haxhimali, Institute for Municipalities of Albania./ InsideStory
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