Shqipëria Posted on 2024-12-17 13:19:00

How will tax fraud be fought? - New strategic tax plan 2024-2028 with 4 main pillars

From Elisabeta Dosku

How will tax fraud be fought? - New strategic tax plan 2024-2028 with 4 main

The tax administration has presented the 2024-2028 strategic plan, which aims to build a "smart and modern administration".

The plan focuses on four main pillars: Increasing the efficiency of tax revenue collection by encouraging voluntary compliance; Modernization of tax administration systems and processes; Organizational progress and development of human capacities; Integration in the EU and alignment with European standards.

As for the first pillar, it is intended to intervene in the tracking of tax frauds, the identification of cases of consumption of the elements of criminal offenses and the sending of the perpetrators before the bodies of Justice and/or taking the relevant administrative measures.

Among other measures, tax control focused on taxpayers, risks and economic sectors that have generated significant losses in the state budget is mentioned; Development of new methods of analyzing data electronically during tax control, relying extensively on fiscalization data; Improving the capacities in the control of products with high tax risk in order to verify the electronic data in the chain of transactions; Using the approach to prevent tax fraud based on continuous monitoring and communication with taxpayers, in order to stimulate the voluntary and timely correction of irregular behavior; Improving capacities for the analysis of tax payers' declarations, branches of multinational companies, and also keeping in mind the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing; Development of new tax control techniques for individuals with high incomes, in order to improve their quality and increase their effectiveness.

As for the second pillar for the modernization of tax administration processes, a number of measures are expected to be taken, starting with the implementation of the new Withholding Tax and DIVA declarations; Digitization of the declaration of the place of exercise of the activity by the taxpayer and the ownership of the place of exercise of the activity; automating the tax control processes as well as reducing the time of approval of the refund amount. Currently the average is 35 days, the target is 25 days. The third and fourth pillars focus on concrete measures aimed at empowering tax administration employees as well as alignment with European Union legislation.

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