DUSHANBE (TCA) — On February 20, the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon took part in the 19th session of the Consultative Council on Improvement of Investment Climate under the President of Tajikistan, Rahmon’s press service reported.
The President raised issues of large-scale use of Tajikistan’s energy capacity in various sectors of the economy jointly with trade partners and countries of the region, improving the country’s position in the Doing Business rating, developing regulatory documents on estimation of effectiveness of existing investment incentives, strengthening the process of introduction of advanced information technologies into the activities of state bodies, and improving the state business regulation.
Farrukh Hamralizoda, the Council’s Executive Secretary and Chairman of the State Committee of Investment and State Property Management of Tajikistan, reported on the implementation of decisions of the previous, 18th Consultative Council’s session.
He spoke about introduction of electronic civil registration and digitalization of the database, development and submission of the draft Government Action Plan on Improvement of the country’s position in the ranking of the Doing Business report, introduction of online state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, launching the electronic system of the Unified State Collateral Register for registering pledges of movable property, and introducing amendments to the Tax Code and Customs Code providing for 30 incentives to improve the investment and business climate.
The Council’s Executive Secretary Hamralizoda proposed consideration of the cluster development in the agriculture sector as well as improvement of the investment climate in the IT and telecommunications sector at subsequent sessions of the Council.
The session also listened to UNDP Resident Representative in Tajikistan, Pratibha Mehta, World Bank Country Director in Tajikistan, Jan Peter Olters, and UNICEF Representative in Tajikistan, Luciano Calestini.
