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Minister: Azerbaijan has taken important steps to improve tax administration

7 August 2016 11:45 (UTC+04:00)
Minister: Azerbaijan has taken important steps to improve tax administration

By Trend

Azerbaijan’s Taxes Ministry held a board meeting on Saturday dedicated to the challenges faced by the Ministry in connection with the execution of the assignments given at the disposal of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on August 4.

The meeting approved the "direction of reform, which will be held in the tax field in 2016" and improvement of tax administration, the information-analytical agency department told Trend.

Speaking at the meeting, the Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov said that under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev for the last 10 years, the tax authorities carried out a number of important measures aimed at supporting the development of business, the expansion of private sector activity, stimulation of investments, building relationships between tax authorities and taxpayers on the basis of mutual trust, the registration of business entities according to the principle of "single window", the increase in the number of e-services, the use of e-audit.

Important steps have been made to improve the tax legislation and tax administration, he said.

Referring to the order of the president on approval of "the direction of reform, which will be held in the tax field in 2016" and improvement of tax administration, tax minister said that the order provides the implementation of important measures in the field of tax administration.

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