Record oil prices, opposition experts and Government: Lower the excise VAT

Despite the demands, Minister of Trade and Trade Industry Mimoza Kusari-Lila said in the latest statement that they have nothing in their hands eliminated both the reduction or removal of the VAT or even the excise.

“TV S.H.A. has never been an option because it's too much trouble to forward T The VV, since it's the tax of added value, is what the citizens pay for, it means by every last consumer. Because we can end up in a situation where VAT-removed, but operators don't cut the price...”, Kusari-Lila said.

But from the opposition, they appreciate that the temporary solution is in these two actions.

LDK leadership member Berat Rukiqi, who was late chairman of the Economic Ode, explained the direct impact of an evental decision to a percentage.

If VAT decreases from 18% → 8% and Akciza is halved What does the citizen get?

VAT → saves 17 cents/liter From the excise → saves 17.5 cent/liter Total: 35 cents cheaper for each liter!”

Despite legal difficulties, so does the former director of competition authority.

If these two rates sit on a certain scale, then the citizen may have the most affordable price”, Valon Presreshi said.

This form of crisis management applies to other countries, according to a professor of economics Fidan Qerimim.

After this crisis passes, back to your previous condition, because budgetary planning is, in view of this”, the Qemim said.

Recently, the Government of Northern Macedonia lowered T V S for derivatives from 18 to 10 percent. While Albania, as Prime Minister Edi Rama announced over the weekend, made a series of decisions, including lowering the excise for 20%.