135.5 thousand citizens’ appeals received by the contact center: Bektenov familiarized himself with the progress of explaining the tax reform

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Over the years of Independence, our athletes have repeatedly demonstrated their high professionalism, achieving victories at the Winter Olympic Games through tough competition. The names of Vladimir Smirnov, Lyudmila Prokasheva, Elena Khrustaleva, Denis Ten, Yulia Galysheva, and many other Olympians are forever inscribed in the history of national sports. In honor of the achievements of our athletes on the world’s largest sporting arenas, the anthem has been played and the flag of our country has been raised many times. I believe that there are many more victories ahead," said the President.

• overstating the number of students through fictitious enrollments and multiple transfers between schools;
• unjustified overstatement of the number of student places without regard to the actual capacity of buildings (exceeding standard capacity by more than three times);
• obtaining double benefits by understating income in tax reporting in order to receive budget financing while simultaneously reducing tax payments;
• carrying out current and cosmetic repairs instead of capital repairs (in the absence of design documentation and cost estimates).
• The Minister of Finance cited numerous facts of violations. It was emphasized that the facts identified by the audit indicate that for a significant portion of private schools, participation in state financing was viewed not as a mechanism to ensure accessibility and quality of education, but as a tool for extracting benefits at the expense of the budget rather than achieving a social objective. The violations became possible due to negligence or direct involvement of officials of state bodies.

• to introduce end-to-end digital monitoring with integration of the information systems of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, and local executive bodies;
• to revise subsidy systems with a focus on actual output rather than paper indicators;
• to apply format-logical control blocking the sale of subsidized livestock until the conditions of state support are fulfilled;
• to conduct mandatory state expertise of construction and installation works for investment projects implemented using state loans.

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Fair, convenient, and understandable. This is exactly how the tax payment process should be. Tax service employees should become consultants and partners of business. Liability measures are provided only for those who deliberately conceal income. Therefore, the entire year of 2026 will be transitional for small and microbusinesses - penalties and fines for mistakes will not be charged. This way, entrepreneurs will be able to use this year for a smooth adaptation to the changes," Olzhas Bektenov noted.

• In Astana, the owner of one of the public catering establishments was included in the list of high-risk taxpayers due to a discrepancy between issued receipts and the number of orders actually fulfilled. As a result, the entrepreneur acknowledged the violations and submitted an additional declaration.
• In the Mangystau region, an analysis of the activities of an energy company revealed an overstatement of the cost of purchased pipelines by a preliminary amount of 16.9 billion tenge. A criminal case has been initiated on this fact.
• In the same Mangystau region, a number of significant inconsistencies were identified at an LLP, indicating the creation of a tax evasion scheme. In particular, most individual entrepreneur suppliers - counterparties - submitted reports from the IP address of the LLP itself; some individual entrepreneurs are employees of the general contractor, and others.
• In Almaty, a significant overstatement of wages was established on the eve of obtaining state contracts for the construction of comfortable schools. Thus, during the construction of one of the facilities, the salary of the head of the LLP increased to 131.5 million, which indicates a possible deliberate increase in construction costs. An inspection has been appointed on this fact.

Currency control" has been integrated with the information system of the National Bank to obtain information on payments carried out by authorized second-tier banks.

• The Ministry of Finance was instructed to ensure high-quality consideration of constructive proposals from the public and experts, with the introduction of specific proposals.
• Territorial departments of state revenues - to ensure proper implementation of the adopted reforms on the ground, as well as the conduct of systematic explanatory work for business and the population.
• The Ministry of Artificial Intelligence - to provide the information systems of the Ministry of Finance with high-speed communication channels and server capacities.
• The Ministry of Finance jointly with the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence - to work out the issue of providing the State Revenue Committee with the necessary computing capacities.
• The Ministries of Trade, Finance, and Artificial Intelligence - by July 1 of the current year to expand the application of the National Catalog of Goods on electronic trading platforms and marketplaces, with subsequent receipt of price information on goods.

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Agreements of this kind, signed on a bilateral basis, help pave the way for both visa-free and readmission agreements, facilitating their faster conclusion. France is not the first country with which we have signed such documents bilaterally, and any bilateral interaction contributes to the development of broader multilateral cooperation," Alibek Bakayev said during the Senate’s meeting.