The concession of fiscal stamps collected 100 million euros, price 10 times more expensive than in EU countries

Journalist Ola Xama showed one of the concessions that have aggravated the state budget on the MCN TV show on the MCN TV.

This is the case with the concession of the fiscal stamps given during the Berisha government and grew up during the Rama governments, while their price was 10 times more than in the EU.

« There were 4 concession contracts in the fixed field given by the Berisha government. The SP received the commitment to remove them. Fiscal stamps were previously offered by the state, but it was concessioned and priced for cigarettes, or the summer quadrupled. The excise tax smuggling and how much the excise tax has increased from this concession.

The company received this contract without competition in the time of the Berisha government. The company is registered in Switzerland, where there is jurisdiction that offers the anonymity of the owners.

With the obligation to declare the beneficiary owners are two Swiss nationals as end beneficiaries of the SICPA company. But he must be an Albanian businessman, but we do not have documented. The SP government received the commitment to undo 4 concessions, but today they have been postponed over the years and the income has increased, the contracting contract in 2023 is over but one year has been postponed, and then the decision was made to the state. It will now make the printing press of securities.

Now with a DCM they have found a company in the United Arab Emirates, which has 51 percent and 49 percent is the base that has the base in Switzerland and there is an Albanian.

The average price in the EU was 3 euros per 1000 fiscal stamps, in Albania it was 22-23 euros depending on the product, ie 10 times more. The government decided to lower the price by 5 euros but again, but now we are 8 times more than the average of EU countries. Albanian citizens pay this money for excise goods. Now if they had the printing of the securities this money would be taken by the state, but she says why I get them, but I was sharing with this private company halfway, ”Xama said.