Current Mining Taxation Policy Implemented by both Mongolia and Kazakhstan: The Development Comparatives between Ulaanbaatar and Astana

Abstract

This paper’s purpose is an attempt to examine the taxation policies enacted onto international mining companies operating in both Mongolia and Kazakhstan (being geographic neighbours) and both nations have a similarity within their respective extraction of raw minerals and other precious metals/resources therein. In addition, this body of research will display a succinct deviation in one country’s corporation tax policy compared to the other; how it has created the “phoenix from the ashes” scenario between Astana-Kazakhstan and the meagre resourced outcome for development in Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia. The data will also illustrate how a nation’s gathering of revenue, has been undermined due to the pressure from international mining companies, which are indeed supported by foreign entities. Therefore, highlighting the differences in policy in corporation taxation within two neighbouring administrations. This report will objectively compare mining extraction quantities and projected revenues concurrently via confirmed cited testimonials from official governmental respected offices of statistics inclusive of the contributions from notable audit firms involved with the data collection cum archiving. The data therein would confirm this paper’s findings within empirical validity via Standard Error projections within the subject matter’s hypothesis and subsequently determine data mining findings.