Tax Ministry official: Where are 3 million economically active people?

Baku. 27 January. REPORT.AZ/ " Irrespective of number of weddings, singers have to pay fixed tax."

Report informs, Advisor to Minister of Taxes, General Director of Taxpayers' Service and Transparent Tax Partnership Department Alakbar Mammadov told reporters at a briefing for stable taxpayers.

According to him, currently, 2/3 of the economically active population do not pay taxes. "There are 4.5 million economically active people in Azerbaijan. 1.5 mln of them pay tax from wages. But where is the rest? Only a part of 3 mln people stable tax payers. Why they don't pay taxes?"