Chechnya: authorities plan to tax livestock and poultry

Residents of Chechnya report that they are demanded to pay tax on their domestic animals. According to their version, officials assert that President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has personally ordered to take taxes on domestic cattle and poultry.

"One of these days we were told that under the order of President Ramzan Kadyrov we now have to pay taxes on livestock. Thus, a cow is taxed as 60 roubles per month, and a hen - 20 roubles. That is, if I have, say, ten hens, I'll have to pay 200 roubles every month. They also say that keeping more than three cows is undesirable, because they'll take away 'extra' cows," a resident named Ramzan from Novogrozny village, Gudermes District, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to his story, administration is already checking houses and offers everyone to pay these new taxes.

An employee of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Development of Chechnya, with whom the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent managed to talk, said that he had not seen any official document regulating taxation of livestock and poultry. He has noted that at the given stage it can be "a bureaucratic local initiative."