## Republic of Tajikistan: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

_IMF Staff Country Reports, April 14, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 14, 2005
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837056.002

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### Overview
- Purpose: Analyze sources of recent growth in Tajikistan and assess policy implications.
- Core conclusion: Economic growth has been mainly driven by the services sector and a surge in remittances that have been mainly used for private consumption and small-scale private investment.
- Additional coverage: Summarizes recently introduced revisions to the Tax Code and examines the likely impact on households of increasing electricity prices to cost-recovery levels.

### Main findings
- Growth drivers:
  - Services sector as a primary engine of recent growth.
  - Surge in remittances, primarily directed to private consumption and small-scale private investment.
- Tax reform:
  - Recent revisions to the Tax Code are characterized as an evolutionary step in simplifying the tax system and setting the base for better revenue administration.
- Household impact analysis:
  - Examination of the likely impact on households from raising electricity prices to cost-recovery levels.

### Policy implications and recommendations
- Revenue administration:
  - Continue reforms to simplify the tax system and strengthen revenue administration based on the Tax Code revisions.
- Household protection:
  - Assess and design measures to mitigate the impact on households from electricity-price increases aimed at cost recovery, taking into account the reliance on remittances for consumption.

### Key statistics and publication metadata
- Pages: 103
- Volume: 2005
- Issue: 131
- Series: Country Report No. 2005/131
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837056.002
- Stock No: 1TJKEA2005002
- ISBN: 9781451837056
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Publication date: April 14, 2005

*International Monetary Fund. "Republic of Tajikistan: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 2005, 131 (2005).*

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