DUSHANBE, October 26, 2015, Asia-Plus – First deputy speaker of Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament, Abdujabbor Azizi, on October 26 presided over parliamentary hearings to discuss implementation of the national budget for 2015 over the first nine months of this year.

Deputies of the Majlisi Namoyandagon and senior representatives of the economic bloc ministries participated in the meeting.

The head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Committee on Economics and Finance, Sharif Rahimzoda, in particular, noted that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose 6.4 percent in a year to September 30, 2015, reaching 33.6 billion somoni.

Over the first nine months of this year, the budget’s revenue part has reportedly stood at 10.8 billion somoni, which was 4.5 percent or 391.9 million somoni fewer than it was originally planned.

260 cases of tax evasion have been revealed over the same nine-month period and 653 officials and managers were implicated in wrongdoing, and disciplinary and administrative action was imposed upon them; 49 of them were sacked, Rahimzoda said.