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experience. By supporting the “customs paradise” policy combined<br />
with the motivated adoption<br />
of VAT, Singapore managed to<br />
eliminate<br />
not only the nourishing ground of corruption, but also to<br />
give a fatal stroke to the corruption habitat of the customs.<br />
WHY WE DEMAND FOR SHKODER TO BE PROCLAIMED<br />
A FREE ZONE?<br />
• The attraction of the necessary investments is made possible.<br />
• The bureaucracy, the corruption (having its strongest roots at<br />
the customs), the incompetence of the state administration, the high<br />
and not stable income-tax policy, the outdated banking system and<br />
the lack of order<br />
have all kept the foreign investors away.<br />
The<br />
experience of <strong>free</strong> <strong>zone</strong>s in Europe, USA, Asia, Australia<br />
have proved that besides creating the conditions for attracting<br />
investments we need, they are extremely successful even when it<br />
comes to the transformation of the technology, professional<br />
management and, why not, the avoidance of contradictions with the<br />
incomplete local legislation.<br />
Under the status of the <strong>free</strong> <strong>zone</strong>, isolated within the watery<br />
“canal” as an extraterritorial area, <strong>Shkodra</strong> in fact will follow the<br />
idea of, as stated by the proverb well known by now, “one country<br />
two systems”, which means to the foreign investors that the paradise<br />
for investments in Albania is the port city of <strong>Shkodra</strong>.<br />
- The expansion of the Shkoder market<br />
Many economic observers think that the insufficient<br />
marketplace has been one factor for the limitation of the big<br />
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