Businesses offered ‘carrot and stick’ with new tax evasion campaign, easier procedures

TIRANA, Sept. 25 – The Socialist Party government has announced a new campaign against informality and measures to further ease doing business procedures starting October 2017 in a carrot and stick approach following a tougher stance at the beginning of its first 2013-2017 term. The initiatives comes as the center left Socialist Party led by Prime Minister Edi Rama was reconfirmed for a second term out of the June 25 general elections, in a stronger mandate allowing it to rule without sharing power with allies. Differently from the previous nationwide operations, the upcoming campaign against informality, the third in the…