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By Aynur Jafarova

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Taxes plans to take 86 actions in 22 directions within the approved strategic plan of development of the tax system for 2013-2020, Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov said on Thursday.

"There are global challenges for the tax service as well as other sectors. The development conception "Azerbaijan-2020: A vision to future" has determined new goals for the national tax system as well. Global tendencies and deepening international integration stipulate the creation of tax systems, based on skills management and improved from the technological point of view," Mammadov mentioned.

According to him, implementation of modern information technologies in the tax system, application of electronic audit, expansion of online services, creation of partner relations between the tax bodies and the tax payers is envisaged within the strategic plan of development.

"During the last ten years, the system of skills management is applied in the significant state organizations of the developed countries as well as in the tax administrations and it has already proved its effectiveness. From this prospective, the tax administration in the country will be relevant to leading international experience and technologies in the future. Deep analytic researches will be carried out in the tax forecasting field in an effort to reveal the potential risks of tax evasion, and it is planned to acquire the most modern software. Furthermore, it is planned to create a new analytic platform," the minister mentioned.

According to Mammadov, application of these technologies will create a basis to improve the analytical report system, and save time for development of reports.

Today, expenditure for tax administration makes up 0.35 percent of the total tax income. Thus, the Azerbaijani tax service holds the most effective system of tax administration in Europe.

Currently, 49 of 57 possible online services are available in the domestic tax system. This, boosts the trust of the civil and business community in the tax system, Mammadov emphasized.

The minister noted that acceptable investment climate and increased economic activity in Azerbaijan enbled to triple the number of the tax payers the period from 2000 to 2012, adding that the growth rate was 72,000 in the last year.

In particular, the tax income grew by 12 times in 2012 compared to 2000, jumping from 510 million manat to six billion manat. This is the result of the economic development and mirrors the existence of the tax administration adequate to the economic system, the minister stressed.

The tax income from the non-oil sector amounted to 3.3 billion manat last year.

As of April 1, 2013, there were 500,081 tax payers in the country.

The official exchange rate for May 9 is 0.7845 AZN/USD.