Agency hosted a strategic session on tax policy reforms

The Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms held a meeting on the new tax policy, which was attended by representatives of government agencies, NCE "Atameken" and other experts.

Opening the event, Aset Irgaliyev, Chairman of the Agency, noted that the Agency had worked out its own conceptual vision and approaches to the new tax policy and called on the meeting participants to have a constructive discussion.

In his speech, Deputy Chairman of the Agency Olzhas Tuleuov presented an analysis of the current tax policy, outlined the prerequisites for restarting tax legislation, presented a draft model of the new tax policy of Kazakhstan and focused on approaches to reforming certain types of taxes, including optimization of special tax regimes.

Vice Minister of National Economy Azamat Amrin, voicing the position of the department, stressed the main tasks of the new Tax Code, such as the service model of tax administration, digitalization of tax control, improving the efficiency of tax benefits, and more, and also expressed proposals and justifications for them.

Chairman of the Presidium of NCE "Atameken" Rayimbek Batalov drew attention to the need to take into account industry specifics in the development of the new code. Taking this into account, the Chamber called for joining efforts to conduct an in-depth joint study of this aspect.

In summary, Aset Irgaliyev announced that the new Tax Code will take into account the macroeconomic component and industry specifics.

In this regard, he proposed to develop a further unified algorithm of actions and called on all participants to work together to develop a new Tax Code that takes into account both the needs of the citizens and business, and the tasks facing the state.