Inflows to Customs, ATK have marked increases in Kosovo budget

Kosovo Customs alone has managed to mark 700 million budget revenues during this period, which compared to the same period last year has scored 10 per cent growth. Customs spokesman Adriatic Stavileci confirms this for Radio Kosovo.

“Arsyet is that Customs daily and more is being trained, more professionalised, improves internal operating systems and procedures, normally fiscal policies also affect more. We have increased revenues, which means we have combat and reduced smuggling. Based on the projections that are predetermined by the MF for 2017, we have to collect over 1 billion and that figure we will offer by, I believe, about 100 percent of the implementation of revenues”, Stavileci said.

Even the Kosovo Tax Administration considers this period a positive trend for revenue collection. Only during this time, according to spokeswoman Valentina Bytyqi-Sefa, the ATK has recorded 238.6m euros, or 8.3 per cent more, than the same period in the preceding year.

Income “has marked increases, despite the poor train of the economy in Kosovo. What is marked as a distinguishing mark for ATK is that it has managed to preserve and raise the image of a dynamic administration in service of all interest parties, as well as modernisation of the tax system. The ATK has also expanded the range of electronic services. In the January-July period so far, ATK has registered 238.6m euros, or 8.3 per cent more than the same period of the previous year, or 18.1m euros more”, claims Bytyqi Sefa.

According to officials, frequent shares in combating the informal economy, co-operation with citizens, facilitating import-export procedures, using advanced systems, eliminating bureaucratic procedures and discrimination have positively affected the growth of revenues into the state ark.