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Initiative for food products without invoices/Panariti: Injustice, a heavy blow to producers

2025-07-19 13:56:00, Politikë CNA

Initiative for food products without invoices/Panariti: Injustice, a heavy blow

The Secretary for Agriculture in the Freedom Party, Edmond Panariti, has reacted to the government's initiative to seize food goods that do not have an invoice.

Panariti called this an injustice, as 90% of Albanian producers are untaxed.

This decision, said Panariti, forcibly removes traders from the market and causes great damage to local agricultural production.

Panariti said that the 24-hour deadline for fiscalizing products is an extraordinary blow and asked for the decision to be reviewed.

 

Edmond Panarit's speech

The ultimate declarations of exclusion from the market if they are not provided with tax invoices are 90% of Albanian producers.
This is the physiognomy of agriculture in Albania, let's say 90% of Albanian producers are small and medium-sized and the vast majority of them are unidentified and therefore untaxed and imposing on them a 24-hour deadline to either be taxed, or be provided with a tax invoice or be out of the market, this is an injustice.

First of all, it forcibly removes them from the market, some of whom support their families, but also contribute to the family economy precisely with that small and medium-sized business, which with this ultimate declaration you aim to finally remove from the market.

This is a great damage to Albanian agricultural production, therefore the reason for the decline of agricultural sectors is precisely the exclusion and lack of support for small and medium-sized businesses, even with state budget funds.

They are now also excluded from European Union funds and what is most painful is that they are also burdened with taxes and duties such as the 20% VAT, which makes this production uncompetitive.

It is not the desire of the small or medium-sized farmer to spend half the day and go out to the side of the road or to a corner of the market to sell his products.

He doesn't want to do this, but his production has no perspective if he doesn't take on the role of both producer and trader, because there is no one to take over the production, there is no organization that, like in neighboring countries and those of the European Union, has the role of going farm to farm, stable to stable, stall to stall to collect the production and thus the producer will produce and the trader will trade the goods.

Consequently, this is how the fiscalization process is carried out, but imposed in this way, in a taxing manner, with 24-hour deadlines, it is an extremely serious damage and blow to that small producer, who, starting from the next day, is now being persecuted, because he has neither a fiscal cash register nor the possibility of self-invoicing.

Therefore, reviewing this abusive decision is an ill-considered decision and, most importantly, will lead Albanian agriculture to new heights.

You know that we have 226 thousand heads of cows out of the 490 thousand heads we left in 2017, this number will continue to shrink.

Therefore, this forced formalization must definitely stop.

We are not against formalization, on the contrary it is in the interest of all producers, but formalization should be inclusive, it should not be exclusive.

Therefore, we must work to ensure that those European Union funds, the state budget funds, are invested in small and medium-sized producers to keep them afloat, to enable them to meet those quality and safety criteria and standards and to enter the market in a dignified manner, alongside large producers, and at the same time to discourage asphyxiating imports, which are increasingly crippling agriculture./ CNA





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