Azerbaijan, Baku, 15 January / Trend corr . I.Khalilova / The Azerbaijani tax bodies are to continue monitorings and checks in enterprises, which evade from tax paying and violate tax rules in order to struggle against shadow economy and illegal entrepreneurship in 2008, Fazil Mammadov, the Azerbaijani Tax Minister, said.
Over 4,000 persons, engaged in illegal entrepreneurship, were revealed in 2007. Criminal cases have been filed over the facts and those persons were fined. About 180 cases have been brought to court. Thirty-eight people were detained.
"The illegal entrepreneurship has been increasing in the country, and I believe that tax bodies would strengthen their struggle to prevent such cases," Mammadov said.