Will the beauty sector be formalized with indicative salaries? - Hasalla: Taxes must be followed rigorously to give the right effect
The personal care sector, one of the most exposed to informality, has been put in the spotlight of the Tax Administration. By setting indicative salaries for professions such as hairdressers, beauticians or personal trainers, the aim is to identify cases where real income is not declared according to the level of work.
Gertjana Hasalla Employment Expert:
"Really, this new indicative salary measure, which is basically a reference salary set for various professions, including the beauty or personal care sector in this case, is a well-thought-out measure and a necessary measure. What we also need to think about is whether the tax sector and the entire department will actually be able to follow this measure step by step in its implementation."
According to the expert, the indicative salary is not a legal obligation, but an instrument used by taxes to assess the risk level of businesses, based on the salaries they declare for their employees.
"The minimum wage is a legal obligation. Meanwhile, the indicative wage is a wage that is used by taxes to see if a business is really categorized as high risk, medium risk or low risk. So, if taxes see that you have specialist people employed, who only receive the minimum wage, they categorize you as a high-risk business and come and really see if these people belong to this category that you have decided or if they belong to another category.
And this is always decided based on the employee's experience, based on the employee's education, based on the job category. Seeing this, taxes can take administrative measures, first by imposing fines, secondly, definitely warnings, but also other administrative and criminal measures related to it. So we must always be more careful now as businesses, even in the personal care or beauty, aesthetics sector, to hire employees for that job category and pay them according to the category correctly, not by giving them informal cash or extra money that is not declared."
According to Hasalla, the failure to declare so far has caused the Albanian economy to be informal in these sectors, and does not bring the possibility of increasing pensions either.
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