19:39, 26 February 2009 | GMT +5
Main task - preservation of job places: Minister B. Sultanov
ASTANA. February 26. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ The Senate of the Kazakh Parliament hosts round table: ?The Role of Fiscal-Budget Policy in Modern Conditions of Kazakhstan?s Development?, Kazinform correspondent reports. Parliament deputies and reps of the state bodies take part in the event.
Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Bakhyt Sultanov reported that the tax policy of the state aimed at reducing tax burden, creating conditions for modernization and diversification of economy, attracting investments into non-oil-and-gas sectors and maximal reducing of reference rules in legislation. The budget policy aimed at reducing budget expenditures to compensate losses of its income part and at the same time preserve expenditures for social and industrial-innovation development.
?The fiscal policy is the core part of the state economic policy and the measures of the Government can have huge influence on the economic growth, income distribution and poverty level?, B. Sultanov emphasized. The Minister informed that the regime of tough economy will touch all state bodies. The main task of this year is preservation of job places.