The Council for Forest Products of Turkey performed the new year's first meeting in our Union's Social Facilities Assembly Hall. While it was participated by the related Board Member Mr. Hüseyin Üzülmez, the public, private sector and senior representatives of non-governmental organizations showed a considerable interest to the meeting.
-"The Biggest Problem of the Sector is VAT Rates"The Council members emphasized that the VAT rates in the sector are very high and with the addition of 9 percent rate forestation and ministry funds, a 27.5 percent rate great burden was brought in VAT means. They also mentioned that even though the funds are under ministry or forestation, it increases the costs a lot and in order to compete with European and EU countries, it is a need to rescue from high tax rates. -"Limited Forest Sources Should Be Increased"In the meeting the members mentioned that the fancy woods sector makes import substitutive production and it is not clear how much longer this situation can meet the needs and because of that they emphasized the importance of growing new forest areas in order to increase the limited forest sources.
