Baku Shopping Festival provides opportunity to win gifts
By Sara Israfilbayova
The Baku Shopping Festival provides its participants with an opportunity for affordable and fashionable family shopping, as well as winning a lot of gifts.
Azerbaijanis and foreign guests, who made purchases worth more than 100 manats ($58.8) in stores labeled with the “Baku Shopping Festival - Tax Free” stickers, get an opportunity to return a certain part of the value-added tax (VAT) from the amount spent. VAT refund is only possible in the stores labeled with the stickers. The certain part of the VAT amount can be refunded in cash or by transfer to a customer’s card/bank account.
In addition, participants of the Baku Shopping Festival are given the opportunity for entertainment on weekends. Having made purchases in the amount of more than 100 manats ($58.80), you can win various gifts by collecting points in the game “Wheel of Fortune” in the shopping center Ganjlik Mall or in the interactive game “Shopomania” in the shopping center Park Bulvar.
Also participants can participate in the online lottery of the Festival when making shopping in the amount of more than 100 manats ($58.80) in shops-VAT payers and 50 manats ($29.4) in shops that are payers of simplified tax. Each lottery participant can win twice.
After registering on the official website of the festival under the link http://bakushopfest.com/lottery/index.php?p=etrafli/az, you activate the first stage of the lottery, where it becomes clear whether you have won a gift. Regardless of the win, you participate in the draw lottery, which will be held on May 31.
For the first time, the Baku Shopping Festival was held on April 10-May 10, 2017, the 2nd Festival was held from October 15 to November 15.
Being held twice per year since 2017, during whole month, Baku Shopping Festival offers Azerbaijani citizens and the guests of the city unique shopping opportunities. From the first Festival till the moment The Baku Shopping Festival has achieved great success on international trade markets and received positive feedback from the local buyers.
The project achieved quite a success and gained trust of the buyers in a very short period of time not only in Azerbaijan, but also in the CIS countries. Two shopping festivals were held in spring and autumn of 2017. More than 600 stores have joined the network of the official participants of the festival so far.
Within the framework of the festival 71,331 transactions have been approved for return of the money by the system of Tax Free and more than 6,500 tourists have benefited from tax free system along the local buyers.
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Sara Israfilbayova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Sara_999Is
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