According to data from the Tax Committee under the Government of Tajikistan, the country’s tax arrears have risen 254 million somonis (equivalent to about US$26 million) over the first nine months of this year, reaching 1.070 billion somonis (equivalent to US$105 million).
Despite this, the tax collection target has reportedly been overfulfilled by 3.0 percent.
According to official statistics, tax receipts in January-September have amounted to about 68 percent of the national budget’s revenues.
Recall, the head of the Tax Committee under the Government of Tajikistan, Nusratullo Davlatzoda, told reporters in Dushanbe on July 14 that tax debs have increased by 196.5 million somonis in six months to June 30, 2022, reaching 1,002,900.000 somonis.
According to him, the most incorrigible tax dodgers are: OJSC Sangtudinskaya GES-1, which operates the Sangtuda-1 hydropower plant – 244.6 million somonis; OJSC NBO Roghun – 55.8 million somonis; OJSC Tajik Telecom (Tajikistan’s state-owned national telecommunications operator) – 123.3 million somonis.
These three companies have reportedly accounted for 43 percent of Tajikistan’s total volume of tax arrears.
