2022 - 2025 PROJECT ON TAX ADMINISTRATION, STA - GDT

To support Albanian Tax Authority in achieving development progress on strengthening good governance, voluntary compliance and business development. The appraisal is about the starting of the longer cooperaiton between the General Directorate of Taxation in Albania (GDT) and the Swedish Tax Agency (STA) with the aim to strengthen the domestic revenue mobilization for 2022 - 2025. The three-year cooperation will be financed by the Sweden International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The GDT and STA has gone through a fact finding and inception phase for almost two years. The preparation phase of the cooperation was important for the parties to get to know better each other, assess needs and gaps, identify the areas of support, establish a project managment structure. In addition, during this period some acitivities had started in the prioritized areas. The main Objective of the Project is to support the GDT in achieving the development and progress needed based on the Albanian Medium Term Strategy (MTRS) 2022-2026. The Project will support these advances by focusing on strengthening good governance, voluntary compliance, and business development within the GDT. This Project will indirectly contribute to the European Union (EU) integration process of Albania and will lay foundations for addressing the European Commission's recommendation under Chapter 16 (Taxation) related to readiness to apply the EU Information Technology (IT) systems such as Value Added Tax Information Exchange System (VIES). The Project consists of five components: i) To build a strong Integrity Culture, ii) To improve Compliance Risk Management, iii) To improve Taxpayer Service, iv) To strengthen the Tax Audit function, and v) To improve and develop business processes. STA is a Swedish agency, committed partner to Swedish Development and Sida but also to the Albanian Government and GDPT. STA has cooperated with GDT for 2004 - 2012 through EU funding. The GDT has shown full commitment to this cooperation allocating also the necessary resources to the project.