The Ministry of Taxes tries to delay the consideration of the claim of Turan against the Ministry

Baku/11.10.17/Turan: Hearings on the claims of the Turan agency against the Local Income Department of Baku city and the Department of preliminary investigation of tax crimes of the Tax Ministry of Azerbaijan took place today in the Baku Administrative Economic Court number 1, under the chairmanship of Museib Bayramov. The agency asked to cancel the decision of August 7 on the additional taxes for the period 2014 - 2016, as well as to recognize as illegal and invalid the decision on an extraordinary on-site tax audit of the agency.

However, almost a month after the filing of the claim by the agency, on September 11, the Local Income Department canceled its own decisions on tax assessments on August 7, which did not prevent the same department from September 15, again charging the same taxes to the agency in the same amount.

Representatives of this department petitioned to stop the proceedings because the decisions of September 11 were abolished, to which the representative of the agency indicated that the decisions of August 7 had not actually been abolished, the same sums were transferred from the decision of August 7 to a decision of 15 September.

The representative of the Department for Preliminary Investigation of Tax Crimes has filed a petition demanding that an action for recognizing an extraordinary on-site tax audit is unacceptable. He tried to justify his claim by the fact that decisions on such inspections are not administrative acts and cannot be appealed.

However, the representative of Turan Fuad Agayev objected to this, pointing out that the very decision to designate an on-site tax audit contains the right to file a complaint with a court within 30 days.

Fuad Agayev also referred to the Rules for the production of on-site tax audits approved by the Ministry of Taxes on September 7, 2016 and included in the State Register of Normative Acts on September 23, 2016, demonstrating Appendix No.2 to these rules, namely: the form of the decision on the appointment of a field tax verification approved by the Ministry. Item 4 of this form contains the right of the taxpayer to appeal.

The court postponed to October 13 for 11:55 consideration of the legality and validity of the decision on an extraordinary tax audit at the Turan agency, and the second case was postponed to December 5.

Turan regards the actions of the Ministry of Taxes as deliberate steps to delay the criminal prosecution of the agency and its director Mehman Aliyev, creating obstacles for the journalistic activities of the team.

* In May the local revenue department appointed the agency Turan sanctions for 2016 for 5,000 manat. However, after the administrative complaint of Turan, the higher authority of the Ministry of Taxes after the investigation at the end of June 30 this decision. Subsequently, on August 7, the same department for the year 2016 added 9,000 manats of taxes, and for 2014 - 2016. - 37 thousand manats. A lawsuit was filed against the agency.

On August 25, director of the agency Mehman Aliyeva was arrested. However, on September 11, he was released under a written undertaking not to leave the city of Baku. -B06-