8 minutes agoAKK accuses the MP of malfunctioning the property tax system: The municipalities are losing millions, citizens are being penalised
Periskopi(a month ago)
(a month ago)The Kosovo Communists Association (AKK) has reacted to the Ministry of Finance (MF) and the Property Tax Department, accusing them of overachieving, reportedly disfunctioning the new property tax system, which was launched in August 2025.
The AKK's response says it is unacceptable that even after nine months municipalities continue to face an dysfunctional system, without concrete and unresponsible institutional responsibility from the central level.
It is unacceptable that even after nine months, municipalities continue to face an dysfunctional system, without concrete deadlines and without any institutional responsibility from the central level”, it is said in response.
The AKK says the consequences of this situation are reflected directly in both municipal and citizen budgets, citing the loss of personal revenues and penalisation through interest and fines.
“As a direct consequence of this neglect: municipalities are losing millions of euros of personal revenues; citizens are being unjustly penalised with interest and fines; recalculated and payment registration procedures have been blocked; parameters do not appear correctly in the system; institutional credibility against municipalities” has been seriously violated, it says.
According to the AKK, despite the continued demands of municipalities for emergency clarification and intervention, the Finance Ministry “has chosen silence and neglect”, allowing municipalities and citizens to face the consequences.
The AKK estimates that the situation is not only technical issues, but “serious institutional punishment” that is damaging municipal finances and local administration functioning.
Kosovo Communists' “Association considers that this situation is no longer just technical problem, but serious institutional failure that is seriously damaging municipal finances and the normal functioning of local administration” is said in response.
In the end, the AKK has urgently called for the full functioning of the system, a transparent public report on problems and responsibilities, the elimination of unfair penalties against citizens, and the compensation of financial damages that, according to them, municipalities are suffering.
“Communs cannot bear the burden of inadequacy and inaction of central institutions”, the response concludes. /Periscope
