TIRANA, February 16/ATA/ The Assembly took up for debate today the draft law that provides for the postponement of the fiscal stamp concession contract by 2 years and the 10% reduction of the fee.
According to Minister of Finance and Economy Delina Ibrahimaj, through this agreement reached with “SICPA Security Solutions” S.A. and “SICPA Security Solutions Albania” sh.p.k., there is made an effort to return to the government those contracts that were signed by the opposition when it was in power through corrupted way and to the detriment of the people.
According to her, this very contract aims to avoid hundreds of millions of Euros in arbitrations.
“We intend to reduce monopolies in the state budget and restore services to the people”, said the minister.
The postponement of the contract was reached through good understanding with the concessionaire company, in order to avoid arbitration, due to the failure of the contractor for putting of the pharmaceutical fiscal stamps.
Putting fiscal stamps on medicaments was not accepted 8 years ago because of the 5 times higher price offered by the concessionaire company.
The concessionaire’s income from fiscal stamps, according to the Ministry of Finance and Economy, is calculated from 900 million ALL to 1 billion ALL per year.
The revised tariffs will start implementation from February 6, 2023. The term of the concession contract ends on December 31, 2024.
During this period, the concessionaire undertakes to make an investment ranging from 3 to 5 million Euros, according to the schedules that will be detailed with respective deadlines in the Contract Management Board./p.s./
