Millers refused to cancel VAT on grain imports in Kyrgyzstan

The flour-grinding industry of Kyrgyzstan has a significant dependence on grain imports, as there is not enough of its own to provide the population with flour and bread. There is not enough grain for animal husbandry, which, for most of the year, is grazing. Kyrgyzstan is a country with high domestic consumption of flour and flour products. The shortage of wheat oriented local millers to increased imports of wheat, primarily from Kazakhstan and Russia. The cost of this wheat forms the basis for the price of flour and further of bread and other products made from flour. Additional taxation on wheat imports leads to an additional rise in price. As KazakhZerno.kz has already reported, millers in Kyrgyzstan are asking their government to extend the agreement on zeroing the value added tax on imported grain for at least another three years. Rustam Zhunushov, President of the Association of Flour Mills of the Republic, stated this at a press conference on January 13. As an argument in ...