DUSHANBE, January 31, Asia-Plus - Amendments made to Tajikistan’s Tax Code have reduced number of types of entrepreneurial activities subject to taxation from 115 to 49, Nusratullo Davlatov, deputy head of the Tax Committee under the Government of Tajikistan, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on January 29.  

According to him, 65,738 people in Tajikistan engaged in entrepreneurial activity by patent pay fixed tax, and another 38,524 people working on the basis of certificate pay income tax.   “In 2006, people working by patent and people working on the basis of certificate transferred to the country’s budget 9.0858 million somonis and 25.1008 million somonis respectively,” Davlatov said.  

“Last year, the tax committee inspected 5,,776 enterprises,” said Davlatov “The inspections recorded instances of violation of the tax code at 4,474 enterprises and fines of a total of 13.9 million somonis were imposed on these enterprises.”  Of this amount, 5.9 million somonis have already been transferred to the budget, according to the tax official.

Besides, the tax committee last year passed rulings obligating more than 5,000 entrepreneurs to pay totaling 850,000 somonis in fines for not fulfilling the tax code requirements, Davlatov said, adding that of this amount, 63,500 somonis have to date been transferred to the country’s budget.