As of January of this year, businesses that pay online by debit or credit card for services will receive their electronic fiscalization certificate in just 60 minutes.
According to e-Albania, which officially announced the news, this is a major relief that cuts the waiting period a business had to endure to obtain the electronic certificate for the fiscalization project down to record time, without being hindered in issuing electronic invoices as a result of the delay.
Businesses that, when applying for an electronic certificate, choose the payment option of downloading the payment order to then proceed in person to the bank do not benefit from this simplified procedure. For these applications, as is currently the case, the business will be issued the electronic fiscalization certificate online via e-Albania within 10 business days, due to manual processing by staff.
Meanwhile, for online card payments, the system automatically processes the request and generates the certificate.
According to e-Albania, this system was tested in the first days of January and is working very well.
In the video at the link Application for the electronic certificate A simplified procedure for applying for the electronic fiscalization certificate is provided, within one hour.
Obtaining the electronic certificate is the first step a business must take to become fiscally compliant. Businesses must also renew the certificate every year, and in January it will be one year since the first phase of the fiscalization process began.
According to additional data from the Ministry of Finance, since January 1 and up to now, 66,000 businesses have been taxed based on updated tax data, or 551 TP3T of the total businesses required to be taxed.
Finance Minister Delina Ibrahimaj said earlier that the process has been closed for large businesses, so extending the penalty-free period only for small businesses does not penalize the category of large taxpayers. Ibrahimaj explained that the decision to extend the penalty-free period for small businesses until June 30, 2022, was made to give them more time to comply with the process's criteria.
Source: Monitor Magazine.