Rama/Blushi's "fiscal peace": An open tool for electoral crime and money laundering!

The Secretary General of the Freedom Party, Tedi Blushi, commented this Monday on the plan for "Fiscal Peace" proposed by Prime Minister Edi Rama. 

In a statement to the media, Blushi stated that Rama's "Fiscal Peace" was an open instrument for electoral crime and vote buying, as well as an alibi for laundering the dirty money of drug traffickers and criminal groups.

Blushi stressed that this initiative, which was supposed to include a fiscal amnesty for businesses, was approved unilaterally and without transparency, transforming Albania into a state that risks blocking its integration into the European Union.

According to him, while Rama presented this "peace" as a magical solution for the economy, it was a maneuver that severely damaged the integration process and used it politically to secure electoral support, harming businesses and the country's economy.

Blushi's statement

At the height of the electoral campaign, Prime Minister Edi Rama promised businesses that he would make a "Fiscal Peace", presented as a magical solution "inspired by ancient Rome", which envisaged the cancellation of 1.6 billion euros in business debts to the Albanian state.

This "peace" that would begin immediately after the May 11 elections was not only a charade and a flagrant electoral crime in order to buy votes, but also an alibi for Edi Rama for the legalization and laundering of the dirty money of drug traffickers and criminals of all kinds.

They were an alibi precisely for those whom the head of the European Parliament observer mission, Mr. Gahler, described as "stable criminal structures" that do not allow a change of power in Albania.

Unilaterally imposed, without any transparency and without any analysis of the economic or legal impact, this clientelistic and corrupt fiscal amnesty would be rejected by the European Union, which has recently dealt another clear and very heavy slap to Edi Rama. 

The European Commission has clearly confirmed that it has not been asked about this initiative, warning that if the initiative is approved, it could negatively affect Albania's accession process to the European Union and will be treated as a serious issue during negotiations on the relevant chapters of the EU acquis.

This is very clear evidence of how the Albanian Government unilaterally, by ignoring European standards and politicizing sensitive fiscal issues for momentary gains, used "fiscal peace" to buy votes on May 11, seriously risking blocking the European integration process.

Therefore, immediately after the elections, "war" took the place of "peace" and Rama showed his true face. 

Businesses report every day that inspectorate controls, which disappeared in the campaign months, have resumed more vigorously than ever, with arbitrary controls and fines.

The Tax Administration has recently received immediate access to information on registered businesses, which will enable real-time data monitoring, with the aim of collecting tax debts, warning of an intensification of the process of forcible collection of obligations.
Edi Rama is an enemy of honest business, whose only plan is to increase taxes, impose arbitrary fines and lose jobs.

The government has no plan to strengthen the business climate and create jobs, other than its major priority of sharing public assets with oligarchs and their clients who continue to barbarically extort citizens' taxes with unfinished services and occupy state and private properties with the status of "strategic partnership".

In this suffocating climate for domestic and foreign investors, when concessions, PPPs and tenders are concentrated in only a handful of oligarchs, when the mega-affair of the incinerator, which does not exist, does not stop, along with the large flow of illegal income from drug trafficking, smuggling and high tax evasion, as well as the dramatic and deliberate devaluation of the euro, it is imperative to return the economy to normality in order to achieve sustainable development.

Albania deserves a clear economic model that relies on boosting production, increasing exports, the knowledge economy, freedom and a business-friendly climate, reducing the fiscal burden and formalizing the economy, guaranteeing vital income for the most needy segments of society, and especially consolidating and expanding the middle class of society.

But this can never be achieved as long as Edi Rama occupies the Prime Minister's chair and is remotely controlled by drug traffickers.

Therefore, the overthrow of Rama and his gang of looters with whom he also stole the elections is the only solution to protect businesses and stop the great drama of devastating depopulation.