The Tajik authorities have postponed repayment of tax debts for one more subdivision of the communications service agency.
The State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility and Radio Monitoring at the Communications Service under the Government of Tajikistan is exempt from paying tax debts and interest on them that arose as of November 1, 2022 during a year.
A government regulation, posted on the Justice Ministry’s website for legal information, in particular, notes that a total volume of these debts is about 33 million somonis (equivalent to more than US$3.2 million), including about 19 million somonis in tax debts themselves and more than 14 million somonis in interest on them.
The SUE Center for Electromagnetic Compatibility and Radio Monitoring is a subordinate enterprise of the Communications Service under the Government of Tajikistan. The Center is engaged in dealing with electromagnetic interference – a sudden change in voltage or current in a circuit.
Previously, it had been reported on granting a deferment for the payment of tax debts and interest on them to Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) Tajiktelecom (Tajikistan’s state-run telecommunications agency), which is also a subordinate enterprise of the communications service agency.
Tajiktelecom was reportedly granted the one-year deferment for the payment of tax debts totaling more than 67.2 million somonis (equivalent to US$6.6 million) and interest on them.
It is to be noted that OJSC Tajikelecom is one of the most incorrigible tax dodgers in the country.
Recall, the head of the Tax Committee under the Government of Tajikistan, Nusratullo Davlatzoda, told reporters in Dushanbe on July 14 last year, 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.
