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Azerbaijan’s Poultry Farmers Make Repeat Appeal to Government for Annulling VAT on Birdseeds

Business Materials 16 November 2007 16:20 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend S.Babayeva / Large poultry enterprise of Azerbaijan repeatedly appealed to the Government with a request to annul VAT for the imported birdseeds due to double price increase for them, said the Head of Republic Society of Poultry Farmers, Aydin Veliyev.

The first appeal was made several months ago. However, no amendments or annexes on this issue have been made to the Tax Code.

"We live is crisis. The poultry enterprises are at the stage of ceasing their activity," he said.

Currently only large poultry enterprises, which have seed reserves, work, but after the exhausting of the reserves, it will need to purchase additional seeds, but they have not funds for it, Veliyev said.

According to him, the recent double increase of the prices for the birdseeds forced all poultry enterprises to significantly decrease the volume of production and if failure to change something, the prices for poultry products in the country will significantly increase. "After this, cheap foreign non-qualitative poultry products will appear in the market," he said.

According to him, certain groups of population buy products abroad with low prices. He considers it necessary to adopt a law on protection of internal market to resolve this issue.

Currently 1kg of poultry meat is assessed by the producers at AZN 2.70 and 1 egg- AZN 0.09. Some 15-20.000 people have been involved in the poultry sphere in Azerbaijan.

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