Success Story: Increased Municipal Tax Revenue Collection Achieved.
Increased Municipal Tax Revenue Collection Achieved Through Better Awareness of NRC Service Window Functions and Outputs.
USAID’s Local Governance Program in
Albania (LGPA) encourages and facilitates local economic growth, through activities that increase investment, create jobs, raise incomes, and ultimately, expand the municipalities’ tax base.

"Now that I've learned about the new business registration procedures at NRC, my job has become much easier. I now understand better my relation with the National Registration Center and I've been able to use its system to improve the accuracy of our local tax registry and to increase our tax collection rate," says Mr. Eduart Koca, tax inspector with the Lezhë Municipality tax department.
Eduart was a participant in the training organized by the LGPA Project in June 2008 in Lezhë. The training, conducted in cooperation with senior staff from the National Registration Center (NRC), advised local government tax administrators on ways to better use the information compiled by the NRC in order to improve tax administration and increase revenues from local business taxes and fees. The NRC’s successful ‘one-stop-shop’ for business registration includes simultaneous registration with relevant tax authorities, the labor inspectorate, as well as for social and health insurance.