Management expert Harutyun Mesrobyan considers that the Government’s action plan can’t yet be perceived as a complete one. In his assessment, the action plan should have components, despite its being that of the Government or a corporation.
It may considered that this is natural, however, on the other hand, the snapshot indirectly edifies centralization of economic activeness and resources in Yerevan.
Head of the vehicular customs house Babken Ghazaryan says several changes have been made in the procedures of customs registration at the instruction of the Prime Minister and SRC President.
Yesterday media outlets posed a question to Vardan Harutyunyan, Chairman of State Revenue Committee (SRC), on volume of taxes paid by “Alex Grig” company for the first 9 months of 2016, to which the SRC Chairman promised to provide a speedy response.
At the joint press conference of PMs of Armenia Karen Karapetyan and of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan, launched in Artsakh, as anticipated, the issue of gas tariff review was touched upon again. Reporters asked again: how “Gazprom-Armenia” operating with a loss, reduces the tariff and won’t we withdraw any property to this company in the future?
“There are 4 sources. One of them is reduction of gas transit price from Russia to Armenia. That transit agreement terminates on January 1, 2017. At the moment negotiations with the Georgian side on reduction of transit tariffs are ongoing. All the money, saved on account of that reduction, will be directed towards solving that issue,” Nazaryan said.
According to initial calculations, in terms of VAT and profit tax – without penalties and fines – the company’s obligations amounted 251.065.000 AMD, Samvel Sinanyan, a SRC official said.
“It’s been one month since I’m no longer a businessman. I’ve been a representative of the business for 25 years, that is large business, and I know very well the problems and issues which must be solved for entrepreneurships, in order for the field to open up. Therefore, we will take steps, you will see. I will struggle against the shadow economy, I will struggle, you will see,” Vardan Harutyunyan said.
At today’s joint meeting of NA Standing Committees on Economic Affairs, Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs during the debates of 2017 Deputy Finance Minister Atom Janjughazyan stated that existence of tariff, structural changes, actual indices of performance in the previous period influenced on the budget.
This year RA Control Chamber carried out inspection at RA Ministry of Education and Science, “National Institute of Education” CJSC and National Information Centre on Academic Recognition and Mobility (ENIC).
