The meeting participants discussed the issues to be included in the Council’s Action Plan. Within two days, the Council working groups considered 43 proposals from various business associations, including IBC, Association of Telecom Operators, Chamber of Tax Consultants, NABA, JIA, Business Ombudsman Institute, Union of Banks, and others. The meeting was chaired by the head of the Council’s secretariat Aida Isabek.
The draft law on amending the Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Code was developed by an expert group of the business community at the IBC initiative to address problematic issues voiced by entrepreneurs at the second meeting of the Industry and Entrepreneurship Development Committee under the National for Sustainable Development Council of the Kyrgyz Republic.
“We have developed this bill to ensure the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs from unjustified criminal prosecution in tax legal relations,” explained Imanaliev.
IBC proposed to amend the Tax Code, exempting domestic air carriers from paying VAT on imports of aircrafts, engines and spare parts into the territory of Kyrgyzstan.
]“Our domestic airlines are now in an unequal competitive environment with their counterparts from the EAEU countries that enjoy benefits. The proposed changes to the Tax Code will create conditions for the development of civil aviation in Kyrgyzstan," Imanaliev concluded.