Export Tax
Customs duty and other taxes on export items are waived purposely to encourage
export. However, the government levies export tax on specific semi-prepared
hides and skins of animals. This export tax includes taxes on wet blue skin of an
ox, wet blue hides of sheep and goat, and pickled hide of a sheep. The tax is
150 percent of the selling price of the hides and skins to be exported. This
tax is introduced on January 1, 2010 by a directive no.25/2009 issued by
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. The government imposed export tax
on these items as a method to curb the exportation of the items, and to
increase domestic leather products such as shoes, purses, ready-made garments
etc.
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