LEGAL ENTITIES PERMITTED NOT TO PAY STATE DUES IN COURTS IN ARMENIA

ARKA
Apr 7, 2009

YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. Armenian Parliament members passed the
amendments to the country’s law about state.

The amendments give individual entrepreneurs and legal entities an
opportunity to get exemption from state due payments.

Armenian Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielyan said that the amendments
invalidate item 4 of article 22 of the law saying that individual
entrepreneurs and legal entities cannot be exempted from state due
payments.

This approach is inadmissible as it is not equal to persons and legal
entities and violates the principle of equality before the law and
the court.

The Minister also pointed out that the mentioned provision is in
conflict with the country’s Code of Civic Procedures envisaging
equality of physical and legal entities before the law.

Currently different amounts of state dues are paid in effecting
various legal operations. Basic amount of the state due is 1,000 Drams
(approx. 3 dollars).