Data issued by the Cadastre “spoil” titanic work by the State Committee of Real Property Cadastre of RA Government, towards providing “brilliant,” “jumping” and “progressive” temps of economic growth. In fact, economic decline, real, non-statistical decline has entered every family, every house, some part of which is becoming a subject for pledge to solve the issue of existence.
An alternative route is presently offered to the freight transporters—through the sea. To get to Russia our trucks should head for Poti, and from there to be transported to the port of Novorossiysk through a ferry and continue the overland route. On the one hand, this extends the route, on the other hand, it creates additional financial and other difficulties for freight transporters.
This curious story of tomatoes, in fact, is not the concern of the Ministry of Agriculture, but is a deeper systemic issue. If people in Armenia consider quite realistic that a few thousand of tons of tomatoes may be imported from Turkey to Armenia, this speaks of zero-level trust towards the customs system.
According to the data of Eurasian Economic Commission in the period of January-April 2016 about 2.7 million liters of strong alcoholic drinks have been exported to EEU member countries with total USD 29.6 million customs value. As compared to the same index of previous year, export of this group of production grew by 2.4 times in kind and 2.3 times in value.
“The reason for this distorted snapshot is the fact that the process of liquidation of enterprises is rather difficult and time consuming, as a result of which businessmen in case of closing their business prefer to freeze it by an application of suspension, by that contributing to useless increase in number of non-active taxpayers and distortion of general statistical snapshot,” the report reads.
The most important place in tax growth is occupied by payments for use of natural resources and protection of the environment. AMD 4.3 billion environmental fee has been collected this April instead of AMD 1.1 billion for the April of 2015. In this direction budget entries increased by AMD 3.2 billion or by four times. And environmental fee is mainly paid by mining enterprises.
The Central Bank of Armenia issued a commemorative medal dedicated to Pope Francis’ visit to Armenia, the slogan of which is “Visit to the first Christian Nation”, press service of the CBA informed reported. In 301 the Christianity became the state religion in Armenia which is associated with the name of St. Gregory the Illuminator.
How big is the market? The representative of Yandex, for instance, mentioned in his speech that there are about 25 thousand taxi service providers in Armenia, half of which isn’t registered. This, of course, is the result of their survey, and it’s difficult to say how close it’s to the reality.
According to the economist, tariff reduction will provide economy saving by AMD 8 billion, “The effect will simply be that. Saving of each family per month will comprise AMD 680-700. And we may give assessment from this, i.e. it’s not going to have essential impact on economy, as for pockets of citizens, it will nearly have no influence.”
“If we observe its structure, USD 130 million of that amount belongs to export from Armenia. Mainly industrial production is being exported. We have positive developments regarding some countries, in particular, Iraq and China. We have 30-40% growth to these countries, which is quite positive, and this agreement is directed to regulation of relations from the standpoint of investments,” he said.
