The Government has drafted a law to exempt Safed-Dara LLC from paying value added tax (VAT) and customs duties.
The draft law has been submitted for consideration to the country’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament (Majlisi Oli).
The government proposes to exempt the company from paying VAT and customs duties for equipment and building materials that will be delivered to the country.
Recall, the State Committee on Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest) announced an open tender for sale of the tourist and ski complex Safed-Dara in November 2015. The initial price for the resort was 1.92 million somoni.
The tender was won by Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC), which is reportedly owned by President Rahmon’s son-in-law Shamsullo Sohibov.
More than 80 million somoni have reportedly been invested in rehabilitation of the Safed-Dara ski resort, which was official opened in 1976.
An official reopening of the rehabilitated Safed-Dara tourism and ski resort, which is located in the Varzob district, 70 kilometers north of Dushanbe, took place on January 7, 2016.
The Safed-Dara tourism and ski resort now has an indoor pool, a fitness room, a SPA salon, a skating rink, sports and children’s grounds, a cinema hall, two conference halls, shops.
