PRIVATE TAXI DRIVERS TO PAY 25 THOUSAND DRAMS ANNUALLY TO RECEIVE LICENCE

Noyan Tapan
Oct 18 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. At the October 18 sitting, the
Armenian government approved the bill on making an addition to the
RA Law on the Use of Cash Registers. The minister of transport and
communication Andranik Manukain said following the sitting that in
order to exclude double investments of economic entities, the bill
proposes not to allow persons engaged in passenger transportation
by taxi to use cash registers (under the Armenian legislation,
availability of a taximeter is mandatory in a taxi’s passenger
compartment), leaving the possibility to choose either a cash register
or a taximeter to economic entities.

According to A. Manukian, by the same decision, the government approved
the bills on making amendments to the RA Law on Licensing and the RA
Law on State Duty. In particular, the bills proposes differentiating
licences for organization of passenger transportation given to
private businessmen using one or more taxis from licences given
to organizations, irrespective of the number of their taxis. The
minister commented that according to the amendment to the RA Law on
State Duty, it is proposed that the annual duty for granting a licence
for passenger transportation in taxi by private businessmen should be
fixed in the amount of 25 basic duties (instead of 200 basic duties)
or 25 thousand drams (about 75 USD), while in other cases the rate
should be left unchaged.

The minister said that the government also approved the order of
holding a tender for transfer of the Armenian railway system under
a concession agreement. The tender commission has been set up.