In recent years, there has been growing interest in the role of minimum wages in improving the lives of low-paid workers, and also in rebalancing national economies. In China, coordinated minimum wage increases across provinces have been a key part...
The public debate on increasing, decreasing, or implementing a minimum wage is not unlike the mythological hydra of Lerna. Not long after the debate is temporarily settled in one country it rears its head in another.1 This regularity is suggestive...
A number of policies have already been introduced in Albania, targeted towards reducing informal employment. The small business tax has been lowered in order to make small businesses more competitive. Social Security contributions have been cut. The employers share was cut...
New entrepreneurs put a lot of time and thought into incorporating and choosing a business structure. After all, it’s the first big legal decision to make for the business and there are plenty of second and third-hand anecdotal horror stories...
The last decade has seen profound political, social, economic and institutional changes in Albania, and these changes have had their effect on tax policy. The reforms, directed at increasing fiscal revenues to deal with growing demands for spending, have established the...
The tax liability is shifted to the recipient of the supply if the entrepreneur making the supply has neither his residence (registered office) nor his habitual abode nor a fixed establishment in Austria, the recipient of the supply is an...
The appropriate approach to tax policy could be the income taxes, and best fitted for the short to medium terms it is the personal income taxation. On the other side the corporate income tax need some assistance in administering issues...
The value added tax help to deal with the major economic issues plaguing the economy. The money raised from a value added tax could be used to help lower the massive around 9-billion-dollar national debt of Albania. The value added...
Good tax administration is primarily a middle-range problem of developing and implementing a process capable of achieving its policy goals (such as revenue and equity) efficiently and effectively. Both a good information base and the capacity to utilize that information effectively are essential tools...
Set against the backdrop of weak global growth and growing popular discontent about trade and globalization, the wide-ranging program of seminars focused on how to lift growth and make it more equitable. The high-level seminars covered issues on gender equality,...
