Minister Fazil Mammadov Outlines Major Goals of Reforms in Azerbaijan's Tax System

Vahab Rzayev; Azerbaijan's national tax system has been modernized in the past 10 years. Increase of the number of entrepreneurs, the country's switch to the active development phase from economic point of view necessitated restructuring of tax service activity on modern basis. Technical basis with broad technical capacity has been established in the recent years, Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov said at the 3rd Tax Forum entitled "Azerbaijan's tax system: Realities and prospects" in Baku, APA-Economics reports.

Fazil Mammadov underlined that the new platform, where open discussions are held on tax-related problems, produces efficient results. Broad discussions were held in the previous forums on conformation of the national tax system to the world standards and its improvement on the most modern technological basis, understanding was reached in the issues of mutual interest with the business society. The outcomes of these discussions are reflected in the new policy pursued in the national tax system. It proves once more that this format of the discussions paves the way for the establishment of more efficient tax system for taxpayers, formation of more efficient tax administration for tax bodies, creation of more favorable business environment in the country.

Minister said Azerbaijan's tax system is capable of offering to the taxpayers most services applied in the world.

"We are trying to establish a system, where a taxpayer can fulfil all tax obligations without coming to the tax office. The Ministry of Taxes is offering more than 50 e-services to the taxpayers. This is the widest e-service collection applied in the country," he said.

He said as a result of the reforms carried out in the registration of entrepreneurs, Azerbaijan is in the top ten in "Starting a business" index in the Doing Business 2014 report released by the...