The Lipjan municipality missed the calculations of income from taxes to property

According to the audience, in seven cases the same taxpayers have been recognised by two and more properties as the main residence, which, according to them, has influenced revenues in these cases to be underestimated for 120m.

The National Audition Office (ZKA) noted that under the Law for Taxation, on real estate Article 9, “Every physical person, who, on March 1st or before March 1st of a tax period, decides that property or residential unit that serves as the main living place, is allowed to drop 10,000 euros (1,000) from the taxable property value”.

The audience has mentioned a specific case when the municipality had wrongly applied the tax fee by overestimating the tax obligation.

“Based in municipal order on the appointment of net 2, municipality in one case had incorrectly applied the tax fee by overestimating the tax obligation of 163.35, after applying the 0.30% fee for commercial property. While according to the evidence it was industrial/depo property, which should be taxed lower or 0.20%”, the report said.

The ZKA also mentioned that according to Article 7 of the Law for Taxing real estate, the municipal Assembly sets tax fees on property on an annual basis to a scale of 0.05 % to 1 % of the market property value.

The tax tariffs move within the following property categories: residential property, residential property, commercial property, industrial property, etc.”, are said to be found in the ZKA report.

The audience has stressed that this has resulted from the commitment of non-professional pollsters to the field to verify the existing state of property, compared to the system data and the negligence of officials committed to recording and update these data based on actual information.

The audience as a danger has mentioned that inaccurate property tax charges result in less funding for the municipality and damage taxpayer in cases of tax overestimation.

ZKA has recommended Lipjan Community Chairman Imri Ahmeti that during the process of registering and verifying property, the physical changes that take place and registration of new property, but also changes in the property category and exploitation of them under legal classification.

“This by applying professional polling and time-changing data based on the actual state and rules in power”, is said to be further recommended.

Regarding these findings of the audience, President Imri Ahmeti has agreed and that within 30 days he has pledged to hand over an action plan for implementing the recommendations.

The National Audition Office (ZKA) has launched publication of audit reports for 2018.