BERISHA BRINGS BACK THE /MARXIST/ TAX
The Finance Ministry rejects the flat tax; bank and telecom companies are ‘penalized’
Taxes increase by up to 30%. In April 2007 Berisha said: ‘A flat tax, because the progressive tax is a Marxist tax’. In January 2011 he declared: ‘I do not tolerate this situation. Zero tolerance for oligarchs’. Yesterday in Parliament the fiscal amnesty was approved, the opposition does not vote. Arvizu also in the chamber
By GENC KONDI
Three years after the flat tax came into force, which brought the profit tax rate to 10%, regardless of a company’s turnover or profit-to-turnover ratio, the government is bringing back progressive taxation, which the prime minister himself had described as “Marxist”, precisely in the statement he made in 2007. In January of this year, Berisha had announced a change in the tax for those he called “oligarchs” and “monopolists”. At a press conference with the World Bank director, Berisha said....
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Kristaq Rama’s studio reopens; Edit and Olsi’s works are also revealed
The sculptor is remembered 13 years after his death in a different style
(In the photo) Kristaq Rama working in the studio. (Upper right) Sketches by sculptor Kristaq Rama. (Lower right) The Rama family
Artist Vladimir Myrtezai: I owed my professor this. I have been working on the restoration for several months, and this has nothing to do with the elections
Myrtezai: The mud thrown at Kristaq Rama? That is part of resilience, it is a matter of individuals, of characters. Nothing stops me from saying that he was and is my friend
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Bovillë, where we drink the water without safety; livestock and waste in the lake
The object of special importance has no fencing at all
Islam Cani: Last year we even found a dead donkey. Shepherd: In Bovillë we give water to the livestock, we also bathe ourselves
By ERMELINDA HOXHAJ
The Bovillë Lake, the largest water basin that supplies the capital with drinking water, although it is an object of special importance, has no safety measures whatsoever. Anyone can enter the area of this basin and throw anything into it, since no employee stops them. This is because through all of Bovillë there also passes the road that connects it with the other part of the area where houses are located. Residents of the area say that during the summer the waters of this basin turn into their private beach....
On page 14
CIA, the secret documents: how Enver Hoxha’s regime was envisioned by the Americans
Facsimiles of the US decisions
By AURON TARE
On pages 20-21
Government gives 800 thousand USD for lobbying to improve its image vis-à-vis the US
The decision kept secret
On page 5
Kate, better than Di
Yesterday in “The Telegraph”
By CRISTINE ODONE
Watch out, Kate! When, with a tragic short life like Diana’s, Princess of Wales, who can resist the comparisons....
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Kate, better than Di
“Wolves” roam the lake
Opinion of the Day
By ILIR DHIMA
Experience has shown and taught us that, in general, wolves come out of winter hungry and rush out all together, in a pack, to find what lies ahead......
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“Wolves” roam the lake
Deputy minister pressures doctors at Polyclinic 8: Vote for Basha
Spahia: PS should vote too
On page 13
Altin Dardha, how he killed 4 people in revenge for his father
Court decision
On pages 8-9
