Tax Officers Claim Measures to Encourage Non-cash Payment
The Ministry of Taxes has developed specific recommendations in the framework of measures to encourage non-cash payments and their active promotion. In addition, as stated in his report, they determined the list of objects in which POS-terminals have to be installed.
A set of measures was designed by the Ministry of Taxes in conjunction with the Central Bank of Azerbaijan and is designed to encourage non-cash payments, as well as to limit the cash handling finances.
According to official figures, in 2014 across the country 51 thousand POS-terminals were set up, thus the total number of operating terminals was brought to 82 thousand. Most of them (64.1%) are in Baku, while the others are in the regions. --17D-
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