The Tax Administration has announced the progress of its controls on tax evasion in the construction sector.

The second case is finalized with concrete results from investigations into real estate agencies, where around Euro 5.4 million of undeclared income from commissions has been identified.

The Tax Administration's controls, financial analyses, and investigations will continue for any entity that attempts to hide income and avoid tax obligations.

The Tax Administration declares that it is ready to make fiscal peace with any taxpayer in order to formalize the economy, but will not stop its actions against tax evasion.

The General Directorate of Taxes has launched a massive structural crackdown against fiscal evasion in the real estate brokerage and construction sector. Spurred by alignment conditions under the EU Growth Plan to tighten anti-money laundering (AML) controls and scale up domestic revenue mobilization, recent "blitz" audits on major property firms have exposed systematic tax fraud.

Reports from the Albanian Financial Intelligence Unit (AFIU) label the real estate market as the primary mechanism for laundering illicit capital from criminal networks and corruption.

Agencies facilitate cash-heavy transactions that allow unregulated funds to penetrate the secondary housing market without proper banking scrutiny.

This unchecked flow of informal capital has detached property prices from local economic realities, contributing to an estimated 70% surge in apartment prices over recent years.

Furthermore, agencies cooperate with buyers and builders to list real estate values at artificially low government reference prices on official invoices, while the remainder is paid informally via unrecorded cash channels.

Real estate companies mask their actual revenue by using non-tax documentation and avoiding the mandatory "fiscalization" (digital logging) of their sales invoices.

Massive gaps exist in payroll compliance, featuring entirely unregistered ("black market") agents and the widespread practice of under-declaring real wages to evade social security contributions.