
The General Directorate has deleted from its official website the list of businesses that have obligations to the state for unpaid taxes. For years, the list of debtor businesses has been public and was updated with regular frequency, at least once a month. In parallel, apart from it, Taxation also published the list of passive businesses, as both were legal requirements.
"The list of passive entities is published in order for third parties to be informed not to perform sales/purchase transactions with entities that are part of the passive register, since based on the fiscal laws of the country, any transaction performed with entities with passive status is automatically considered an administrative violation."
In short, if a regular business enters into a transaction with a business that is on the passive list, then the tax administration punishes it with a fine.
But now both lists, both that of debtors and that of passive entities, have disappeared from the official website of Taxes, an unprecedented case that has never happened before.
Doubts are that the deletion of the list of debtors and that of passive subjects is not accidental. Previous media reports have documented frequent cases of businesses linked to high officials, who appear as debtors because they do not pay taxes. For these businesses, the tax administration does not seem to have the zeal to implement the law and to forcefully collect the obligations as required by the law.
Now the lists have disappeared without any explanation from the official website, probably to hide the government officials and clients who do not pay taxes./ Kapital.al
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