Draft finance law 2017 upholds tax justice, encourages job creation (Prime Ministry)

(TAP) – The draft finance law 2017 “establishes the principle of fair taxation and encourages job creation,” the Prime Ministry said in a document released Monday. The document states that “the 2017 budget is an expansionary budget,” particularly as its volume has increased by 12% in 2016 to 32.58 billion dinars in 2017 against 29.150 billion dinars in 2016. According to the same document, the development expenditure will achieve a qualitative leap (of 5,295 MTD in 2016 to 5,800 MTD in 2017). The revision of tax rates will allow all…