Monthly Archives - March 2024

What is the hourly labor cost in the Western Balkans and how much is it affected by productivity?

According to the international understanding of unit labor cost, it is seen as a broad measure of (international) price competition. It is calculated as the ratio of wages together with work-related compensations and bonuses to working hours. The calculation is...

Why should labor taxation be based on equality and efficiency against informality?

The treatment of employment tax between equity and efficiency is at the core of modern ways of taxing employment income.On the one hand, the government wants to improve social welfare through a fairer distribution of disposable income (tax equity). On...

Why are remittances still high in the Western Balkans?

Remittance flows for 2023 in Albania reached the amount of 929 million Euros, which have increased from last year by 95 million Euros more and are directed directly towards families for daily consumption, expenses for education, health, maintenance and travel....

Primary balance, credit rating agencies and long-term sustainability

According to the definition presented by the OECD[1] for the government's primary balance, the most appropriate explanation is that "The primary balance is the difference between the amount of revenue a government collects and the amount it spends...

Growing concern about the health of tax policy and equality, but also the imbalance of economic freedom

There are a number of important issues related to wage tax policies that deserve careful attention. Any decision affecting payroll tax should have in-depth transparency and inclusiveness from the initial policy-making processes, based on in-depth studies of consequences and effects....

Housing prices and their affordability by Albanian families

The housing construction sector has an important role for family stability and income growth. Based on this role, increased attention is needed for developments in the sector not only from entrepreneurs/developers, but also from the public sector as a whole...

Natural disasters and corruption also monitored by civil society

Corruption in cases of natural disasters[1] is a worrying problem that is being felt in the direction of burdening the state budget by a large burden and influencing in other directions, but with the partially transparent way and...

The VAT threshold, the reckless policy and the behavior of the administration affect the growth of small businesses

Value added tax (VAT) in Albania, according to tax statistics in 2023, includes 34,767 taxpayers within the scheme, of which 9,450 are taxpayers registered as small businesses.The number of taxpayers with VAT guaranteed the main large source of revenue of...

Average salary indicators in 2023 in the public and private sector and the need for productivity

In the latest publication of INSTAT on average salaries in the public and private sector in the fourth quarter of 2023, it can be seen that the increase in salaries is with a continuous increase, as it happened in...

error: