AMMAN –– The Lower House Monday endorsed the amended
Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) bill and referred other draft laws to its
specialized committees, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
The amendments aim to unify the customs management, giving more powers to the
Customs Department within the ASEZ borders to detect and investigate customs
crimes and collect taxes, fees, fines, and service duties.
The draft also grants the Income and Sales Tax Department new powers to audit,
calculate, and collect the income and sales taxes, and the ASEZ tax. But the
lawmakers rejected a proposal to raise ASEZ's share of income and sales taxes
collections to 40 percent and kept the current 25 percent ratio.
In today's session, which was chaired by House Speaker Abdulkarim Dughmi, and
attended by Prime Minister
Bisher Khasawneh, and cabinet members, the
legislature referred other draft laws to relevant committees, including a bill
abolishing the
National Microfinance Bank that was passed to the Economy and
Investment Committee, an extradition agreement between Jordan and Romania to
the Legal Committee, and an amended General Sales Tax Law to the Finance
Committee.
It also began debating the draft 2019 profession licensing law of the Greater
Amman Municipality, and will tomorrow resume discussion of the bill's articles
as well as debating a decision by the Legal Committee on constitutional
amendments.
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