Astana. February 17. KazTag - Valentina Vladimirskaya. The light industry asks the government to reimburse part of the cost of enterprises of the industry for marketing and renting, quotas in retail chains and state procurements, liberation and customs duties of raw materials and components and VAT rates in 3%, said Majilisa Deputy from the Fractions of the Ak Zhol Party Denmark Espaeva .
"Please reimburse part of marketing and rent costs, to ensure the presence of trading networks at least 50% of goods of the light industry of domestic production with bringing the subsequent up to 30%, in the framework of the public procure of establishing the minimum share of goods of Kazakhstan's origin, in the presence of these goods in Kazakhstan , free from customs duties raw materials and components that are not produced in Kazakhstan and establish a reduced VAT rate of 3% for light industry enterprises, "said Espaeva at the Mazhilis meeting on Wednesday.
According to her, in Kazakhstan, domestic goods are poorly presented in all retail chains of class A shopping centers due to one-time contributions for three months. Forward, which increases the final cost of the product by 30% -50%. As a result, the goods cannot compete with goods from neighboring countries.
Only in the presence of long-term regular purchases of domestic goods for the state and quasigostector, manufacturers will be able to maintain production and modernize it, the deputy noted.
The Ak Zhol party has repeatedly declared the need to apply the differentiated VAT rate for priority sectors to which the light industry belongs and offered to lower the customs duty on raw materials, materials, equipment for commodity producers. The cost of this product of raw materials, mainly imported, is 60%, she reminded.
Over the past five years, more than 40% of the light industry enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan, according to its data, have ceased work, the number of employees has decreased from 25 thousand to 13 thousand, whereas in Soviet times in Kazakhstan, employment in this industry has reached 203 thousand.
Obviously, such a situation, in addition to the rupture of the economic relations of the former union and the absence of a raw material base, was developed due to the lack of the Sector Development State Increased, Espaeva appreciated.