Notification of the legal obligation to report bank accounts.

General Directorate of Taxes has begun implementing the legal obligation to report bank accounts, based on the law No. 154/2020 “On the Central Register of Bank Accounts”, as part of aligning our legislation with that of the European Union.

According to this definition, the carrier registry of data for this legal obligation has been established. The data reporting subjects are all financial institutions, both banks and non-banks, that administer bank accounts and safe deposit boxes.

Since January 2021, the Tax Administration has encouraged all of the aforementioned financial institutions to fulfill the obligations arising from this law.

Financial institutions that have not yet reported to the General Directorate of Taxes, by failing to fulfill their legal obligations, will be subject to further penalties under the provisions of this law.

Source: General Directorate of Taxes.

About the author

Andi Haxhillari is an economist and the founder of AlProfit Consult, an accounting, tax advisory, and financial management firm in Tirana, established in 2015. He holds the professional title of Certified Accountant, certificate no. 359, issued by the Certification Authority of the Ministry of Finance on July 4, 2012. He graduated with a Master's degree in Accounting and as a General Economist from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tirana. For more than ten years, he has worked as an external economist for small and medium-sized businesses in Albania.

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