Minister of Economy, Culture and Innovation, Blendi Gonxhja, said on Thursday in his remarks at the plenary session that, “during the year 2023, 16,835 businesses were registered in the National Business Center and 3,329 businesses were deregistered.”

According to him, business registrations outnumber de-registrations.

“On an annual basis, there is a positive difference in the number of registrations which is estimated at 13,506 new businesses”, he said.

The minister emphasized that the positive trend has continued even earlier this year.

“Referring to the NBC statistics, for the period January – March 2024, 4,785 businesses were registered and 855 were deregistered. Meanwhile, 3,930 new physical and legal persons were registered,” said the minister.

Gonxhja informed that in total, for the 15-month period (January 2023 – March 2024), it turns out that 17,436 new businesses were registered in the tax system.
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