Tbilisi. On April 16, 2015, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) sent a freedom of information letter to the Georgian Revenue Service requesting information on whether the Revenue Service had conducted inspections of Free Industrial Zones (FIZ) in the country. IDFI also requested the reports or protocols prepared by the Revenue Service as a result of these inspections.

''The Revenue Service refused to provide IDFI with the requested information, citing Article 39, part one of the Tax Code, according to which, any information received by the tax authority on a taxpayer, apart from the taxpayer's status, name, address, identification number, information on tax debt, and public information contained in the business registry, constitutes confidential tax information from the moment of an enterprise’s tax registration'', is noted in the statement.

Source: idfi.ge