“Businesses shouldn’t be obstructed’’ by corrupt officials seeking payments for administrative decisions or by dominant rivals using political ties to restrict competition, said Karapetyan, a former mayor of Yerevan who took office after returning from Russia, where he worked in Moscow since 2012 for a subsidiary of Gazprom PJSC, the world’s largest natural-gas exporter. “We will create an even, competitive, level playing field.’’
“It allowed us and our partners to document and analyze the problems which occur on the way and jointly try to overcome the obstacles which impact the timing and price of the shipment,” he said.
This year RA Control Chamber inspected use of means allotted to RA Ministry of Diaspora from September 1, 2015 upon the budget program. According to the report issued by the Control Chamber (CC), in 2015 and 2016 state budget has allotted respectively AMD billion 35 million 188.8 thousand and AMD 1 billion 165 million 833.6 thousand to the Ministry of Diaspora.
A.Margaryan stated that from next year the budget can’t be planned with a deficit more than 3%, although the threshold is 7%. “Our debt with repayments is extended untill 2050. Neither of our neighbors has such an extension, despite they’re equal regarding physical volumes and the comparison isn’t proper,” he said.
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.
