Not even in 2020 will the tax of unworked agricultural lands begin

At the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development for Kosova Prees, they suggest they are working in this direction.

The head of the agricultural land division near this ministry, Idriz Gashi, told Kosova Prees that administrative instruction has not yet been finalised that will determine the procedures and criteria for which agricultural land is not cultivated but has not yet been finalised.

Another obstacle to not launching tax pay for unworked agricultural lands, he says that there are also catatral data.

The Ministry of Agriculture has formed the task force, which has worked on a draft of this administrative instruction, but has not yet been finalised. The other reason it hasn't started this year is the catatral data. There is an unreliable catastorial system, so it presents a special challenge in taxing agricultural and unsullied land. Another reason that when a public policy is established against farmers has to be argued, a part of the active population that in villages has worked agricultural land is no longer migrated to more developed countries... It is planned that this administrative instruction will be prepared in 2020, all instruments of this administrative instruction are prepared, and start in 2021<18x1>, he says.

The head of the agricultural land division says the purpose of this policy was to stimulate citizens to work these lands.

The goal was to develop a land market, stimulate people who work, and those people who don't work to have a symbolic tax. The other goal has been for agricultural land, which is not designed to enter its economic function, to enter into production because of the increase in farm size. If it is seen as stimulating for those who don't work... such policies also have countries in the region in order for agricultural land to work and enter the product in order to provide better income for farmers themselves and the state itself”, Gashi said.

That Kosovo citizens will not be obliged to pay land that does not work and told KosovaPress and the director of the Property Tax, near the Ministry of Finance, Shkelzen Morina, who said that since administrative guidelines have not yet been drafted that regulate the tax for unworked agricultural lands, implementation of the tax decision on land that is not cultivated will be postponed until 2021.

Under the property tax law, I have to fix with administrative guidelines the Ministry of Agriculture, which is still working and we have received information from them that administrative instruction is not yet prepared, and therefore the finance minister has issued a decision again as late as 2019, which even in 2020 that no agricultural land being cultivated will be taxed, regardless of what will not be cultivated. So agricultural lands won't be taxed either in 2020 until it becomes a legal base”, Morina stressed.

From the tax on commercial-industry lands, about 1m euros have been collected this year.

Agriculture Professor Imer Rusinovac told Kosova priss that the delay in implementing the mechanism for paying taxes for agricultural lands that are not even worked next year will still bring land with sweat.

According to him, even farmers who do not cultivate agricultural land must pay double taxes.

I think that all farmers who don't work on agricultural land, even tax is double in proportion to those who work because we really don't have another mechanism to maintain for the fact that Kosovo hasn't developed a mechanism to maintain the earth's technological integrity ... The power of tax on agricultural land doesn't coincide with economic development, and I consider that even this year that we will see flat surfaces again, respectively, Sunday”, the university professor said.

After registering agriculture, implemented by the Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK) published in March 2015, the area of agricultural land is totaling 52,000.29 hectares. Meanwhile, agricultural economies in Kosovo use a total of 413 hectares of agricultural land.