ATK fined 340 businesses worth 120 thousand euros for price hikes

So it has revealed to Kosovo Press Kosovo Tax Administration Director Ilir Murtezaj, who said how ATK has fined 340 businesses due to price hikes.

According to him, the calls of citizens where they denounced price hikes from businesses in the early days of pandemic have been more numerous, but the situation has now normalised.

“As ATK we've done our job in the best possible way by creating price stability and bringing it now into a more normal state where only if we take the first days on the 12th and 13 we've had over a thousand calls denouncing the particular price hikes we've now come to normal and we have within a day two or three calls per day... We've actually received about 4 thousand or 4010 calls until yesterday. Where of these 4010 calls we've had 340 field activities to verify those calls. Where they resulted in having 340 fines... which is a total of 120 thousand euros exactly 119 thousand and 23 euros”, Murtezaj said.

According to him, the pandemic COVID19 has also affected the decline of revenues and Kosovo Tax Administration.

Until this moment when we're talking in terms of revenues, we have a failure to make up for the expected revenues of around 51m euros, while if we look at the same period last year we have a 32.9m euros. Of course, this as a result of the pandemic, otherwise by March 18th, when it was regular activity and we didn't have extended deadlines for tax statements ATK has been on an excellent track in the bankrolling of revenues where we had until March 18th if they looked through January 1st of this year compared to the same period of last year we had 11.2 percent growth. And in relation to the plan we had 3.6 percent more”, he stressed.