DUSHANBE, September 3, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- On Monday September 3, Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, speaker of Tajikistan’s upper house (Majlisi Milli) of parliament, signed a decree on convocation of the next session of the Majlisi Milli on September 14.

Shavkat Saidov, an aide to the Majlisi Milli speaker, says the session is expected to consider a new edition of the country’s code and a number of laws adopted by the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) this year.    

We will recall that the new edition of the tax code of Tajikistan offers reduction in the number of types of taxes by half -- from 21 to 10.  The new edition of the tax code, in particular, offers to reduce the number of republican taxes from 17 to 8 and the number of local taxes from four to two.

By government’s decree the Working (WG) for working out the new Tax Code was set up on May 18, 2011 and its members included representatives of the Ministries of Finance, Economic Development and Trade, Finance as well as the Customs Service, the Tax Committee, the State Committee for Investments and State-owned Property Management, the Association of Banks of Tajikistan and the National Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Tajikistan.