DUSHANBE, June 22, 2012, Asia-Plus — Tajik government plans to sign eight grant and loan agreements for a total amount of 502 million somoni (equivalent to more than 102 million U.S. dollars) by the end of this end.
According to the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) press center, Minister of Finance Safarali Najmiddinov remarked this at the parliamentary hearings in Dushanbe on June 22.
Najmiddinov, in particular, noted that four loan and grant agreements for a total amount of 220 million somoni have been signed over the first five months of this year and grants accounted for 80 percent of that amount.
Speaking at the meeting, Safarali Rajabov, head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Committee on Economics and Finance, noted that over the first five months of this year, the national budget has been overfulfilled by 3 percent.
Budgetary receipts have reportedly amounted to more than 3.4 billion somoni over the report period, including more than 1.5 billion somoni of customs duties and more than 1.9 billion somoni of taxes. “This is 112 million somoni more than it was originally planned,” the parliamentarian noted.
Rajabov also noted that according to findings by the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption, corruption cost Tajikistan 65.8 million somoni in January-May of 2012, which is 34.1 million somoni more than in the same period last year.
