Underdeclaration of salaries, builders in the focus of taxes/ Control of sales contracts and source of income
The General Directorate of Taxes announces that starting from January 16, field inspections have begun for underdeclaration of salaries in the construction sector. The inspections will only include those entities that have not respected the floor salaries set by taxes from December 1, 2025. Due to the declaration of lower salaries than the actual taxes, last month they published the list of salaries for the construction sector, depending on each profession.
"We would like to inform you that any taxpayer who declares salaries below the indicative salary level, or who changes the profession of employees with the aim of avoiding the real declaration of salaries, thereby jeopardizing the payment of social contributions and pensions, will be considered at risk and as such will be subject to control by specialized structures of the Tax Administration," the latest announcement from the tax administration states.
Through a letter sent to businesses in this sector, the tax authorities inform them that failure to declare real salaries undermines the guarantee of social security and pensions, and therefore they may face in-depth investigations, and the focus of the controls will also be transactions with suspicious sources of income in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies.
Construction employs a total of 63 thousand people, a number that has increased by 20 thousand within a decade, but is classified as one of the areas of the economy with the lowest salaries in the country. Although for years there have been reports of salary increases by the builders themselves as they are also facing a shortage of workers, INSTAT figures show that the average salary in construction is 68 thousand 277 lekë, because they are under-reported.
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