DUSHANBE, February 21, Asia-Plus - With financial support of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) the Government of Tajikistan has published 125,000 copies of a book for registration inspections that will be distributed to all entrepreneurs in Tajikistan free of charge.

This book is dedicated to regulate a procedure of inspections and register them.

“This book is a good instrument for an entrepreneur to protect his/her rights,” Mr. Blanc Florentine, head of the Small and Medium Business Project in Tajikistan, remarked in Dushanbe Tuesday [February 21] following a ceremony of handing over the registration books to tax services of Tajik cities and districts.   According to him, entrepreneurs surveyed during IFC-sponsored poll have noted that use of the registration book eliminates the possibility of unfounded inspections.  In order to make sure that the inspection is authorized each entrepreneur has the right to request from inspectors that they make an appropriate record in the book.  

“Beginning on February 27 and till the end of March, the tax services will distribute these books to entrepreneurs,” Ravshan Madaminov, deputy head of the Tax Department within the Ministry of State Revenues and Tax Collections, said, adding that at present there are more than 85,000 officially registered entrepreneurs in Tajikistan.  

A decision to publish 125,000 copies of the registration book has been made following president’s edict “On Introduction of Book of Registration of Inspections of Economic Entities in the Republic of Tajikistan ” as well as under conditions of a loan provided by the World Bank to the Government of Tajikistan for structural reforms.   

The results of survey of business environment in Tajikistan conducted by IFC in 2003 have shown that few entrepreneurs in the republic have and use the registration book.  

As it had been reported earlier, many entrepreneurs in the republic complaint against constant irrational inspections, which annoy small business owners in Tajikistan .  Many of them say they lost many time to dealing with such inspectors.