DUSHANBE, July 20, 2012, Asia-Plus — The new edition of the tax code of Tajikistan offers reduction in the number of types of taxes by half — from 21 to 10, Nusratullo Davlatov, head of the Tax Committee under the Government of Tajikistan, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on July 20.
“The new edition of the tax code, in particular, offers to reduce the number of republican taxes from 17 to 8 and the number of local taxes from four to two,” said Davlatov. “Besides, the number of articles in the new tax code has been reduced from 355 to 326.”
According to him, the new tax code has been submitted for consideration to the government. “The government is expected to consider the new tax code at the end of July, Tajik chief tax officer noted.
We will recall that by government’s decree the Working (WG) for working out the new Tax Code was set up on May 18, 2011 and its members include representatives of the Ministries of Finance, Economic Development and Trade, Finance as well as the Customs Service, the Tax Committee, the State Committee for Investments and State-owned Property Management, the Association of Banks of Tajikistan and the National Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Tajikistan.
By government’s decree the new edition of the country’s tax code must be prepared by April 1, 2012.
Current tax code that was adopted in 2005 has been repeatedly criticized by international organizations and local entrepreneurs and experts.
