FLASH
Shkruar nga Artan Fuga
Whoever pays taxes in a territory should have all the rights in that territory. That is, to be considered a citizen with full rights there. He should have the right to use the hospital and ambulances, to take his children to school, to receive social reimbursements if he meets the conditions, and above all, above all: to have the right to "vote" there!
The imposition of an additional tax on secondary homes and apartments has room for some comments, I believe.
Adding a tax is not that simple. Centuries ago, adding a little tax on salt, or cinnamon, was a big deal! Half of Europe would be ruined. But, they were serfs, they had a farm, we are citizens, we don't deal with taxes.
We make sculptures like Aunt Sofka's Koçi!
Even when kings made it so that people also had their own property. Not anymore in such a developed democracy as we are!
It seems that this second home tax is a popular measure. As if it only affects construction tycoons, those who own fifty apartments, or several houses where the underground floors are several times larger than the floors visible above ground.
But, this is an illusion. Imagine how many popular classes have left their homes in the villages and towns of their homeland and have come to larger cities or to Tirana. Now they will have to bear an additional tax. The emigrants who, after leaving their homes in the villages, have bought - with hard-earned money - an apartment in a larger city to have it will also be hit in the pocket.
What will they do? Will they sell or demolish the houses in rural areas? Won't this lead to even greater abandonment of these suburban areas and a more painful emptiness?
Someone will say, but in Europe there are also additional taxes for second homes. Of course. The thing is that when we want to impose additional burdens on citizens, we look to Europe, but we do not see what facilities it creates for Europeans! Let's not forget that in Europe there are measures that the house tax for those with low incomes or special statuses does not exist at all, or is reduced to symbolic magnitude.
It seems a bit incomprehensible to me that this tax was intended to increase the budget of local governments where people have second homes, especially in tourist areas!!!
Very good. Then let's halve the tax on the main residence and use the remaining second part of that tax to pay the tax on the second residence. In this way, the hand is not put in the citizen's pocket, and part of the financial flows are redistributed, going, for example, to coastal areas.
That normally citizens who have second homes in this area already bring profits to local governments even without this tax. That they drink, eat, pay for water, energy, etc. Do they love me?
Especially since this tax does not have to fill the budgets of bankrupt municipalities. This is not how the issue is being handled. Tax money is to be returned to the citizen, with good roads, sidewalks, trees, greenery, etc. So, the tax is not to be paid to get the municipality out of bankruptcy that comes from expenses that are completely unmonitored by the citizen, but for that money to be returned in the form of services and investments for the citizen.
The most important, the most burning, the most annoying, is that population taxation has a "counter-tax": Whoever pays taxes in a territory should have all the rights in that territory. That is, to be considered a citizen with full rights there. He should have the right to use the hospital and ambulances, to take his children to school, to receive social reimbursements if he meets the conditions, and above all, above all: to have the "right" to vote there!
How? To vote in two places? - would some idiot say? Both where he has his main residence and where he has his secondary residence or property?
Yes, definitely! He should have the right to vote wherever he wants, he will vote once, but wherever he wants. At the beginning of each year he determines where he will vote.
Meanwhile, he is a citizen of that neighborhood, of that village, of that coastal area, of that city. So, he should have the right to be registered in the civil registry there.
Okay? Do you want Europe? Do you want a tax on second homes? Halal! But that's how Europe is!
Even foreign citizens, who come from a country but reside there, without being citizens there, have the right to vote for local government.
Otherwise, how does the person who pays taxes on their apartment know that their money won't turn into grapes and plums, won't go to buying turkey, baked goods, baklava, pilaf, and New Year's Eve treats?
How? Someone who lives in a second home for only one month a year should pay the same amount of taxes as someone who is a permanent resident there?
Why do they use the road, sidewalks, benches in the same way, use the water pipes in the same way, pollute the environment, and therefore incur the same expenses for the local government as those who live there all the time?
Okay, additional taxes, but doesn't the citizen have the right to sign a contract with the local government every year on where the tax plus the second apartment will be spent?
Where is this? Give me money and go wipe your lips!
You have no councilor to represent you, because you don't have the right to vote there! You are a slave!
Paying taxes, without the right to vote, therefore without the right to citizenship, to control those who use it, do you know what that is?
Simply a slave state.
Even if an opposition MP or councilor in local government accepts it without saying a word, he or she has degraded nothing but a slave state and mentality!
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