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13.01.2020

Certain aspects of tax legislation modified

Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus of 31 December 2019 No. 503 “On taxation” modified tax rates concerning certain taxation objects and activities, the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus informs.

In particular the Edict established, until December 31, 2020, rates of excise on excisable goods, land tax rates for agricultural land, average land tax rates for districts of the Republic of Belarus, environmental tax rates for emissions of pollutants into the air; environmental tax rates for wastewater discharges, environmental tax rates for disposal, storage of production waste, tax rates for the extraction (removal) of natural resources, tax rates for the extraction (removal) of natural resources in relation to oil.

The Edict was officially published in Russian on the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus on 10 January 2020, and its main provisions entered into force from 1 January 2020.