Sali Berisha, in a conference with journalists from the headquarters of the Democratic Party, presented "the emergency package of the vital minimum above 200 euros and the calculation of pensions above this minimum".
"We also promised a minimum salary of 500 euros, but these are still not enough. Why are they not enough? Because of these pensions, three pensions deal with VAT, which they pay on every bite of food. Can you imagine, the pensioner pays 500 euros VAT for the food he uses per month, he pays the same as the president of the Republic who receives over 5 thousand euros or Edi Rama who comes close to him, not to mention Dumani with 7 thousand euros. Is there anything more inhuman than this? Within the framework of our program to overturn the distribution of national income, to narrow this terrible gap created in Albanian society, I come before you today to inform the citizens that a consumer card will be urgently introduced, with which 100 percent of the VAT of the basic products of the basket is reimbursed for every pensioner, for every family on the vital minimum, for every disabled person, without exception", said Berisha, writes A2.
"The charter has two ways to proceed, there is a way to reduce the VAT or remove the VAT for food, but this again equalizes those who cannot be equalized. You can't compare the one who gets 7 thousand euros to sleep on crime files every night, plus what he gets from crime, with the one who counts bites with 160 thousand euros. Therefore, in order not to create this equality, no, experts suggest that VAT remain as it is and all these, 780 thousand pensioners, all families in economic assistance, etc., that they also pay VAT, the VAT of basic products 100 percent refunded. Experts in the economy and the digital field have an excellent scheme to avoid any type of evasion, since every invoice of those who present this card will be deposited in a server and at the end of 6 months the balance will be made, 20-30 days back and the owner of the card will receive all the payments made for VAT. So no bonuses, no need for bonuses and pensioner mercy, the pensioner needs to take a step towards narrowing the terrible gap you have created. This is the next big step we are taking to ease the lives of all Albanians, not only pensioners, but also families in need, the unemployed and so on', added Berisha. (A2 Televizion)
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