Aldo Fontanarosa, an influential and longtime journalist, obtained from Prime Minister Edi Rama's office the clarification that more than 4,000 Italian and many other European pensioners were waiting for: no new taxes on either Albanian or Italian and European pensioners.
The source is the newly appointed spokeswoman of Prime Minister Jonida Shehu, in office since February 2. contacted by Aldo Fontanarosa who had already dealt with this issue on January 31 in “la Repubblica”.Thus ends the fear of a taxation of 15% .A fear that ”has prompted -writes Fontanarosa- a large group of Italian pensioners, with regular residence in Albanian land to write a letter-appeal to Prime Minister Edi Rama. And the case, in recent hours, has been taken up by both the website AlbanItaly and Italian MP Arnaldo Lomuti, of the 5Stelle.Now, however, the Albanian government denies that any taxation may arrive.”
Our news portal had the merit of publicly raising the issue and giving the impetus to the newspaper La Repubblica to deal with it with great professionalism. Great credit should be given to journalist Artur Nura who has followed and is following the events and problems of Italians in Albania with exemplary punctuality and seriousness .
We thank the prime minister who, with just a few words from his spokeswoman, has cleared a fog that had been hanging over Italian pensioners for two months, creating a climate of anxiety and confusion.
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