G. Skaistė: the future Government will have to decide on the tax reform Business

“It seems to me, just from the correct way of working, if today we have an election period, we will have a new Government in the near future, such systemic issues should be left to the competence of the new Government. (…) The new Government will have the opportunity to evaluate and decide which projects are to be presented while preparing its work program”, G. Skaistė said at the press conference on Wednesday.

“It is disappointing that (the tax reform – BNS) was not implemented in full, but I would like to point out that about a third of the decisions that were proposed with tax changes have been adopted,” said the minister, answering the question whether the failed tax reforms do not consider this The defeat of the government.

Conservative Mindaugas Lingė, chairman of the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee (BFK), previously said that tax reform issues will not be pushed before the elections, but he did not rule out that they could be returned to after the elections, while still working for the Seimas of this term.

“It was not possible to agree on everything. Apparently, politics is such a matter where the agreement is above everything and if that agreement cannot be reached, apparently the decisions are not destined to be implemented”, said G. Skaistė.

International institutions have been providing these recommendations (regarding tax changes – BNS) to Lithuania for more than twelve years. (…) In such a case, the next government will still have to return to those issues in one form or another,” the minister added.

The government introduced the package of tax changes a year ago, but it never reached the stage of adoption in the Seimas without the support of the opposition and because the ruling party – conservatives, liberals and “liberals” – quarreled over the reform.