OSCE OFFICE SUPPORTS COURSES TO HELP BUSINESS OWNERS ADHERE TO AMENDED TAX LAW IN ARMENIA
armradio.am
25.10.2008 12:46
Helping small- and medium-sized enterprises adapt to recent tax
legislation changes is the purpose of a course that starts today at
an OSCE-supported anti-corruption centre in Yerevan.
"The course will benefit the entrepreneurs and will help reduce the
risk for corruption, thus supporting the government’s anti-corruption
policy," said Marc Bojanic, Deputy Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
During the course, Tax Service and Finance Ministry officials will
explain what the legislation changes mean to small- and medium-sized
enterprises.
The course is organized in co-operation with the Small and Medium
Entrepreneurship Development National Centre of Armenia. A guidebook
to the tax law, published earlier this month by the OSCE Office,
will be used in the course.
Similar courses will be held across Armenia to help business owners
adhere to the law. The courses will be held at OSCE-supported regional
anti-corruption centres.
Armen Khojoyan, the co-ordinator of the Anti-Corruption Public
Reception Centre in Yerevan, said more than 2,000 people had
visited the Yerevan centre since it opened last year. The centre
has co-operated with relevant government bodies and civil society
organizations to identify the areas of concern and to raise awareness
on related issues,, he said., he said.
The OSCE-supported anti-corruption centres in Yerevan, Goris and
Martuni provide the public with consultations on matters including
civic and labour rights, social and security laws, small and medium
entrepreneurship, public health, conscription, driver’s rights and
consumers’ rights.