Lukashenka offers tax breaks to carmakers

Alyaksandr Lukashenka, by his April 4 presidential edict, granted tax exemptions to car manufacturers, said the Belarusian leader’s press office.



Automakers will be exempted for a period of three years from profit and excise taxes and payments into the government’s agriculture support fund, the press office said.


Welding, painting and body assembly operations also will be exempted from the import duty and value-added tax on the components and the requisite equipment for the work for the 10 years.

 

Only one plant assembles cars in Belarus. In February 2006, the Unison plant near Minsk and Iran Khodro inked a nine-year deal to assemble the Samand car and its more luxurious type, Samand LX, in Belarus.