The full text of President Ilham Aliyev’s speech at the Cabinet meeting on October 12 was published only a day later, which shows a rather intense nature of this event.
In particular, the head of state made sharp accusations against certain structures and their leaders, without naming them. However, the nature of these complaints suggests that he criticized the tax service, the customs, and to a lesser degree the Ministry of Economy and the law enforcement agencies.
In particular, the head of state for the first time said that there was a problem such as monopoly, Earlier he demanded to eliminate corruption and lawlessness, and now he spoke of the shadow economy and of the negative consequences of the deterioration of the business atmosphere in the country, and the senseless spending of public funds.
This situation stifles entrepreneurship, which is extorted money. In this regard, it is necessary to make transparent the work of the tax authorities and customs officials, he said.
One of the ways, as he believes, is further transfer of functions of ministries and departments to the service ASAN. "We need systemic institutional reforms," declared the head of state, announcing his political will to do so.
Aliyev made an unexpected appeal to civil society to become more active in the fight against corruption. "Without public scrutiny we could not fight corruption," he admitted. "This evil causes serious damage to our economy," said Aliyev
Turning to structural reforms, he said certain structures just copy each other, which is unacceptable, and it has to be optimized.
He further highlighted the unjustified inspections. "There are a lot of complaints about unnecessary testing and inspection bodies compete with each other. So many checks again cause corruption. It's not a secret. It is necessary to debug and modify the system of checks and significantly reduce their number," said Aliyev, noting that law enforcement agencies and executive authorities should not touch entrepreneurs either. "Because of extortion, 30 thousand jobs have been closed. I demand a report on the reasons for this," he said.
Continuing his criticism, Aliyev made a significant admission: If it was not for this corruption, checking, monopoly, licenses and extortion, look how much our budget would increase! "Let them all make a conclusion of what has been said," he warned. -03D-
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