The director of the Tax Administration of Kosovo, Ilir Murtezaj, has said that a significant improvement in the payment of taxes by singers has been observed in the last six months.
He said that in the payment of taxes from this category for half a year there is an improvement of about 30 percent.
"We have eight specific plans for certain sectors that our electronic system identifies as sectors with potential risks in tax evasion. Among these sectors are also gastronomy and singers, which are treated with a special plan since in certain periods, such as the summer season, there is increased activity and there are tendencies for tax avoidance. The results we have had in the past have proven that there is a significant gap of tax avoidance from this category, while the subsequent results from 2021 onwards show that there is a significant improvement in the turnover of the incomes that they report and the payment of taxes. In the six-month period of this year, singers had a 30 percent improvement in tax payment, from 1.2 million euros to 1.6 million euros, while if we look over the years, in 2021 we had about 900 thousand euros from this category, while now we only have six months, 1.6 million, which means that there is a significant improvement", he said on Thursday in KTV's "60 Minutes".
Murtezaj said that the large tax evasion observed in the past by this category cannot be observed now in the data from the risk analysis.
"As a category of taxpayers, our indicators, our data from risk analysis, show that (singers and gastronomy) have had great avoidance in the past. There is a significant improvement in reporting and payment by these taxpayers. There are gastronomy businesses, a number of which continue not to issue fiscal coupons. We had the first two or three cases these days that we were obliged to close for seven days", he added.
The Director of TAK has added that this institution is continuing its efforts to expand in the northern part of the country, as well as in the rest of Kosovo.
"The northern part is a kind of local challenge for all institutions. We have made continuous efforts to have expansion and expansion we have had, which was normally sufficient because not only in the northern part but also here there is informality, it has decreased significantly but it still exists. In the northern part, there were taxpayers from the Serbian community who were registered, declared and paid taxes, but there were also those who were unregistered. Recently, an improvement has been observed", he said.
