{"id":34165,"date":"2022-04-12T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=34165"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:57:01","slug":"arrests-do-little-to-solve-the-issue-with-informalities-online-says-head-of-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/arrests-do-little-to-solve-the-issue-with-informalities-online-says-head-of-ngo\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests do little to solve the issue of informalities online, says head of NGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Tirana\u2019s District Prosecution signed 22 arrest orders for citizens selling contraband goods online.<\/p>\n<p>These same individuals had also set up a scheme that allowed them to evade their taxes and fiscal contributions.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the head of Albania\u2019s Online Sales Association, Valer Pinderi, was invited to Euronews Albania to give his take on the issue of informality.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pinderi, these arrests don\u2019t actually solve the problem as the issue is deeply rooted in the way we do business in Albania, especially in regards to the process of selling online, which is the very last link in the long myriad of irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are numerous ways we can solve this problem but it will take time because this is a progressive and continuous issue. It can\u2019t be solved at once,\u201d \u2013 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pinderi also underlined that around 3500 individuals are involved in selling about 16.000 packages per day in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>The newly set up Association of Online Sales includes 35 different companies, whose goal is to formalize this market in Albania, said Pinderi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/03\/23\/40-of-albanias-economy-is-informal-says-economy-expert\/\">40% of Albania\u2019s economy is informal, says economy expert<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/unpublished\/2021\/11\/03\/how-changes-to-law-on-gambling-paved-the-way-for-illegal-online-betting\/\">How changes to the gambling law paved the way for illegal online betting<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/unpublished\/2021\/09\/14\/unpublished-dives-into-two-of-albanias-most-notorious-cold-cases\/\">Unpublished dives into two of Albania\u2019s most notorious cold cases<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu33296\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu24266\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Tirana\u2019s District Prosecution signed 22 arrest orders for citizens selling contraband goods online. These same individuals had also set up a scheme that allowed them to evade their taxes and fiscal contributions. As a result, the head of Albania\u2019s Online Sales Association, Valer Pinderi, was invited to Euronews Albania to give his take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":34166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arrests do little to solve the issue of informalities online, says head of NGO - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/arrests-do-little-to-solve-the-issue-with-informalities-online-says-head-of-ngo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arrests do little to solve the issue of informalities online, says head of NGO - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday, Tirana\u2019s District Prosecution signed 22 arrest orders for citizens selling contraband goods online. 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