{"id":39365,"date":"2022-07-05T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=39365"},"modified":"2022-07-05T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:17:11","slug":"eu-strongly-opposes-albanias-proposed-tax-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/eu-strongly-opposes-albanias-proposed-tax-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"EU strongly opposes a possible tax amnesty in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has taken a stand against the current draft bill that would allow for a temporary tax amnesty in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>Through an official <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/delegations\/albania\/13th-subcommittee-meeting-trade-industry-customs-and-taxation-between-eu-and_en?s=214&amp;fs=e\">announcement<\/a><\/strong> on their webpage, the European Commission highlighted that this draft poses a serious concern that would deeply weaken and undermine Albania\u2019s control of money laundering practices.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EU, this would seriously hurt the country\u2019s reputation, especially the part that allows even non-taxable residents like Albanians living in the EU or in the Western Balkans, to be included in this law, asking them to import the unjustified cash.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the minister of finance, Delina Ibrahimaj, said that the government has yet to receive approval for this draft bill from the European Union or the European Council\u2019s entity against money laundering practices Moneyval.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she stated that this draft has been presented to international institutions but is still in the dialogue phase.<\/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\/06\/27\/fiscal-amnesty-risks-money-laundering-amcham-defies-government-initiative\/\">Fiscal amnesty risks money laundering, AmCham defies government initiative<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/06\/24\/tax-amnesty-albanians-can-declare-up-to-e2-million-euros-of-unjustified-wealth\/\">Tax amnesty, Albanians can declare up to \u20ac2 million euros of unjustified wealth<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/shock\/2022\/04\/14\/bushati-casts-doubt-over-real-intentions-behind-fiscal-amnesty-for-immigrants\/\">Bushati casts doubt over real intentions behind fiscal amnesty for immigrants<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has taken a stand against the current draft bill that would allow for a temporary tax amnesty in Albania. Through an official announcement on their webpage, the European Commission highlighted that this draft poses a serious concern that would deeply weaken and undermine Albania\u2019s control of money laundering practices. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":39366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EU strongly opposes a possible tax amnesty in Albania - 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\/eu-strongly-opposes-albanias-proposed-tax-amnesty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EU strongly opposes a possible tax amnesty in Albania - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The European Union has taken a stand against the current draft bill that would allow for a temporary tax amnesty in Albania. 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