Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr I. Khalilova / On 26 October, the meeting of the Azerbaijani Parliamentary Commission on Economic Cooperation commenced discussing changes and supplements to the Tax Code within the framework of the public budget for 2008. Presenting changes to the Tax Code, the Azerbaijani Deputy Tax Minister, Natig Amirov, said that the sixty changes and supplements fall into the five following categories - twenty editorial changes, six changes intended for expansion of tax-payers' rights, nine intended for development and improvement of tax policy, nine for improvement of tax control efficiency, and twenty for improvement of the tax administration.
The changes envisage issues on taxation and tax control over special economic areas being established in Azerbaijan, such as oil and gas export activities. In this connection it is planned to create separate laws to regulate the activities, but the laws will not stipulate for taxation rate norms, Amirov said.
"Given the importance of special economic areas and oil and gas export activities, changes will be made to the Tax Code to prevent any further problems in passing the new laws," he said.
In the following years changes and supplements to the Tax Code will be submitted to the Parliament by 15 May at the latest in order to make certain that the changes are passed in the first half of the year, he said.