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Central to MCCA2's support for the reform in the tax administration is the creation of mechanisms for public oversight and consultation, and the improvement of service to taxpayers in Albania.

In attaining these goals, the role of the MCCA2 project will be:

• To assist with the creation and operation of a Taxpayers Consultative Council to institutionalize consultation between the public and private sectors on issues affecting taxpayers;
• To help establish a Taxpayers Advocate Office to ensure taxpayer rights are protected, and
• To support the opening of regional taxpayer service centers.

Taxpayers Consultative Council

During stage I, the MCC Albania Threshold Program facilitated several round table discussions as the Ministry of Finance and the General Directorate Taxation (GDT) engaged energetically in public consultations leading up to the enactment of the tax procedures law.

The project will leverage this successful experience to provide momentum for a permanent consultative body that institutionalizes public oversight and consultation in administrative policy matters. The Taxpayers Consultative Council will include members from business, academia, and tax practitioners from the accounting/legal professions. Its mandate will be to provide the GDT with feedback and seek solutions that improve voluntary compliance. 

Taxpayers Advocate
 
The establishment of the Taxpayer Advocate’s Office will likely both produce constructive suggestions for systemic change and help resolve individual taxpayers’ complaints. The project will provide infrastructure, organizational, training, and public-outreach assistance similiar to that provided during stage I to the Procurement Advocate’s Office. 

Regional taxpayer service centers (TSC)
 
The project will help the GDT’s Taxpayer Service Directorate establish regional TSCs, replicating the existing one in Tirana, build with support from the Stage I MCC Albania Threshold Program. 


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Friday, August 27, 2010


The application process for membership in the Tax Council begins

By September 23, 2010, chambers of commerce and industry, business associations, professional associations of accountants and accounting experts, other professional associations established by special law, as well as other non-profit organizations that represent large taxpayers’ groups would be able to submit at the Ministry of Finance their applications for membership in the Tax Council.

Established based on an April 2010 amendment of the law “On Tax Procedures in the Republic of Albania”, with support by MCCA2, this Council serves as a consultative body and a technical cooperation forum between the Ministry of Finance, General Directorate of Taxation, and taxpayers. Its purpose is to discuss and propose measures to ensure implementation of the tax legislation at a lower administrative cost for the tax administration and lower financial burden for the taxpayers.

For more information on the Tax Council and to download the Application Form for membership in the Council, please visit www.minfin.gov.al and www.tatime.gov.al.

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Millennium Challenge Corporation
Albania Threshold Program II

Rruga "Pjetër Budi"
Classic Construction Building
First floor, No. 10
 Tirana 1000, Albania

Tel: +355 4 23 80 400
Fax: +355 4 23 80 424 

Email: office@mcata.org.al