DUSHANBE, October 14, 2013, Asia-Plus — The board (Shuro) of Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) discussed amendments proposed to the new Tax Code of Tajikistan at an October 14 meeting presided by the Majlisi Namoyandagon speaker, Shukurjon Zuhurov.
Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, says, “The amendments have clarification character and are aimed at removing contradictions in the new Tax Code that was adopted in 2012.”
According to him, more than 55 amendments have been submitted for consideration to parliamentarians.
The board reportedly also discussed amendment proposed to the country’s Administrative and Customs codes.
All these issues have been tabled to the agenda of the next sitting of the fifth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the fourth convocation that will take place on October 17, Sultonov said.
We will recall that the government endorsed the bill requiring amendments to Tajikistan’s new Tax Code on July 30.
Finance Minister, Safarali Najmiddinov, told journalists in Dushanbe on July 31 that the amendments will promote simplification of tax procedures for small and medium-sized enterprises.
According to him, barbers and hairdressers, as well as outworkers and some categories of handicraftsmen will have the right to get patent.
The amendments also concern dry-land farmers, who will now pay taxes only seven months, “because they cannot work in their lands the remaining five months.”
“More than 100 changes have been made to the tax code that was adopted in September 2012 and came into force on January 1, 2013,” Najmiddinov noted.
Investors investing in enhancement of the energy sector will pay only income and social taxes and will be exempted from paying other types o taxes.
Besides, domestic textile products manufacturers will be exempted from paying four types of taxes during the first twelve years since they are launched irrespective of forms of property, the minister noted.
The Majlisi Namoyandagon approved the new edition of the country’s Tax Code on September 5, 2012. The number of articles in the Tax Code of Tajikistan was reduced from 359 to 329 and the new Tax Code offers the considerable reduction in the number of types of taxes by half — from 21 to 10. Retail sales tax and highway use tax were abolished, while some types of taxes were unified.
For the purpose of supporting domestic producers the new tax code provides for exempting all the imported state-of-the-art equipment and technologies for production of commodities and services from paying value added tax (VAT) and customs duties.
