Albania has one of region’s highest tax burden, poorest collection rates, study shows

TIRANA, April 9 – Albania is one of the ten Balkan countries where the tax burden registered one of the highest increases in the past four years, but yet continues to collect one of the region’s lowest levels of taxes as a percentage of the GDP, unveiling the tax administration’s slowly recovering efficiency and ongoing high levels of tax evasion, a study shows. The situation reflects the 2014 switch to progressive taxation increasing the tax burden and a nationwide campaign to fight tax evasion that the tax administration has been conducting over the past two and a half years. At…