President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has chaired today, April 4, a videoconference session to discuss performance in the realization of forecast revenues in the national budget and exports, as well as issues pertinent to securing strict implementation of forecast indicators for the first half of 2019.

In the first quarter of this year, revenues to the national budget have met the forecast parameters to the full. This is twice the figure of the same period last year. Toward the end of the quarter, revenues of local budgets exceeded the forecast by 1 trillion 253 billion soums, 1.5 times more funds remained at the disposal of regions than in the same period of 2018.

The head of state noted that the greater the incomes of local budgets, the faster current social issues are addressed. Additional funds may be allocated to the local implementation of the Five Initiatives, the government programs “Obod Qishloq”, “Obod Mahalla”, “Drinking Water”, “Every Family Entrepreneur” and others to increase incomes, improve the level and quality of life of the population.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sharply criticized the fact that not all managers are aware of the importance of this issue. In particular, 9 districts and cities have failed to meet the forecasts for budget revenues.

In seven of the eleven districts in the city of Tashkent, the forecast parameters on revenues were not fulfilled. The heads of tax inspections of these districts are dismissed. The passivity of the heads of hokimiyats and tax departments of the capital in ensuring revenues to the budget has been criticized.

The like situation is observed in the provinces, too. In this regard, the State Tax Committee is charged to consider the issue of competency of the heads of tax departments in a number of districts and cities to the position held.

As you may know, one of the main goals of the Concept of Improving the Tax Policy of Uzbekistan is to equally distribute the tax burden.

The head of state noted that the government faces a number of tasks that must be performed to effectively implement the tax reform.

In particular, since early this year the number of payers of value added tax has increased fivefold.

Due to the lack of effective and simplified mechanisms for calculating the value added tax, 9 thousand of the 26 thousand enterprises that have switched to the new system have failed to submit tax reports on time.

The Cabinet of Ministers and the State Tax Committee are instructed, within a month, to work out jointly with international experts and present a draft resolution on the elimination of problems arising from the implementation of tax reform.

One of the main obstacles in ensuring revenues to the budget is the continuing informal activity in the economy.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev stressed the completely unsatisfactory state of affairs in the area. In this regard, the head of our state instructed to intensify the measures taken on this front.

Thus, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Business Ombudsman were instructed, together with the hokimiyats, to approve a schedule of meetings with businesspeople who had suspended their activity and take measures to facilitate the resumption of their work.

According to preliminary calculations, with the timely elimination of these problems by the end of the year, the budget could receive additionally at least 6 trillion soums.

In particular, there are opportunities for providing – in the second quarter of this year – 200 billion soums of additional budget revenues in Bukhara, Navoi, Tashkent regions and the city of Tashkent, 170 billion soums in Kashkadarya, 140 billion soums in Andijan region, 130 billion in Karakalpakstan, 100 billion in the Ferghana region, 80 billion each in Samarkand and Namangan, 60 billion each in Jizzakh, Surkhandarya, Syrdarya and Khorezm regions – 2 trillion soums in total.Budget incomes and export revenues important source of social sector development.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has chaired today, April 4, a videoconference session to discuss performance in the realization of forecast revenues in the national budget and exports, as well as issues pertinent to securing strict implementation of forecast indicators for the first half of 2019.

In the first quarter of this year, revenues to the national budget have met the forecast parameters to the full. This is twice the figure of the same period last year. Toward the end of the quarter, revenues of local budgets exceeded the forecast by 1 trillion 253 billion soums, 1.5 times more funds remained at the disposal of regions than in the same period of 2018.

The head of state noted that the greater the incomes of local budgets, the faster current social issues are addressed. Additional funds may be allocated to the local implementation of the Five Initiatives, the government programs “Obod Qishloq”, “Obod Mahalla”, “Drinking Water”, “Every Family Entrepreneur” and others to increase incomes, improve the level and quality of life of the population.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sharply criticized the fact that not all managers are aware of the importance of this issue. In particular, 9 districts and cities have failed to meet the forecasts for budget revenues.

In seven of the eleven districts in the city of Tashkent, the forecast parameters on revenues were not fulfilled. The heads of tax inspections of these districts are dismissed. The passivity of the heads of hokimiyats and tax departments of the capital in ensuring revenues to the budget has been criticized.

The like situation is observed in the provinces, too. In this regard, the State Tax Committee is charged to consider the issue of competency of the heads of tax departments in a number of districts and cities to the position held.

As you may know, one of the main goals of the Concept of Improving the Tax Policy of Uzbekistan is to equally distribute the tax burden.

The head of state noted that the government faces a number of tasks that must be performed to effectively implement the tax reform.

In particular, since early this year the number of payers of value added tax has increased fivefold.

Due to the lack of effective and simplified mechanisms for calculating the value added tax, 9 thousand of the 26 thousand enterprises that have switched to the new system have failed to submit tax reports on time.

The Cabinet of Ministers and the State Tax Committee are instructed, within a month, to work out jointly with international experts and present a draft resolution on the elimination of problems arising from the implementation of tax reform.

One of the main obstacles in ensuring revenues to the budget is the continuing informal activity in the economy.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev stressed the completely unsatisfactory state of affairs in the area. In this regard, the head of our state instructed to intensify the measures taken on this front.

Thus, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Business Ombudsman were instructed, together with the hokimiyats, to approve a schedule of meetings with businesspeople who had suspended their activity and take measures to facilitate the resumption of their work.

According to preliminary calculations, with the timely elimination of these problems by the end of the year, the budget could receive additionally at least 6 trillion soums.

In particular, there are opportunities for providing – in the second quarter of this year – 200 billion soums of additional budget revenues in Bukhara, Navoi, Tashkent regions and the city of Tashkent, 170 billion soums in Kashkadarya, 140 billion soums in Andijan region, 130 billion in Karakalpakstan, 100 billion in the Ferghana region, 80 billion each in Samarkand and Namangan, 60 billion each in Jizzakh, Surkhandarya, Syrdarya and Khorezm regions – 2 trillion soums in total.