ACCORDING TO V. MANUKIAN, REFORMS OF VARIOUS KINDS SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO LIQUIDATION OF ARTIFICIAL MONOPOLIES IN ECONOMY

Noyan Tapan
Jan 21, 2008

YEREVAN, JANUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the preelection
program of Vazgen Manukian, a candidate for presidency, the Chairman
of the National Democratic Union, the economic and social spheres
are interrelated and require complex solutions.

According to him, in particular, it is necessary:

– to exclude redistribution of private property at the same time by
liquidating non-formal privileges for this or that representative of
business. Equal possibilities should be created for everybody. The
tax policy should be equally acceptable for small, medium-sized,
and big business. The property institution should be protected,

– to legislatively invalidate the amendments and addenda to the RA
law On Simplified Tax adopted on July 3, 2007, in consequence of
which the number of those using that kind of tax was considerably
reduced. Instead it is proposed increasing the circulation subject
to simplified taxation, by bringing it to 100m from 50m drams,

– to immediately stop collection of VAT from importing companies on
the border. It should be collected only after realization of goods
inside the country,

– to encourage at the state level and to create favorable conditions
for development of innovation economy. It is possible to take a place
on the foreign market only with economy based on knowledge,

– to keep the rates of raising pensions, by implementing indexation
of pensions every three months, as growth of prices for goods of
wide consumption will not give a possibility to the pensioners to
feel increase of the funds managed by them,

– to establish a minimum amount of salary and pension to an amount
adequate to the consumer basket.

According to V. Manukian, after all, reforms of various kinds should
contribute to liquidation of artificial monopolies in economy. The
state by legislatively creating a respective structure should carry
on active anti-monopoly policy. All this, he considers, is possible
only as a result of radical political reforms.