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Tax dispute holds back Albania’s new ‘National Arena’ stadium

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TIRANA, Nov. 5 – Albania’s football association says the completion of the ‘National Arena’ stadium, the new home of Albania’s national side in the Albanian capital city Tirana, has been called into question due to a tax dispute with the Albanian government. The football governing body says it will undertake legal action against the Albanian government after failing to get back €2 million in value added tax refunds from its part of investment. The new stadium is a €50 million public private partnership project under which an Albanian-owned company was offered public land to build commercial facilities in return for…

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