RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN ATTENDED THE PRESENTATION OF "TAXPAYER-3" SYSTEM HELD AT EREBUNI PLAZA HOTEL IN YEREVAN

Wedn esday, 22 July 2009

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended the presentation of
"Taxpayer-3" system held at Erebuni Plaza Hotel in Yerevan. The
software was made possible through the joint efforts of the Government
Staff of the Republic of Armenia, the Ministry of Economy and the
State Revenue Committee by the Government with close support of the
European Union.

The Taxpayer-3 system provides an online automated tax return receipt
management tool. SRC Head Gagik Khachatryan briefed the participants
– top-ranking public officials and entrepreneurs – on the assets of
this system, which will enable the SRC management to follow from the
headquartered computers the operations of local inspectorates. It
can get all types of returns online. Domestic taxpayers will be
provided electronic passports reflecting their past records. A
risk assessment criteria-based automated system will be available
to allow identification of such entities as may prove subject to
checkups. As a result, taxpayer-tax collector relationship will be
given a qualitatively new format.

Either the State will benefit from this system thanks to the facility
of direct and synchronized data entry into the SRC data base from all
regions of Armenia, the shaping of a conf idence-building environment
for fast contact with taxpayers and reduced number of tax returns
submitted in hard copies.

Chief of Government Staff David Sargsyan advised that for a while
now documents are circulated online between the Government Staff,
the ministries of economy, finance, territorial administration,
Diaspora and foreign affairs and Kotayk marz administration. With
the help of the World Bank, the Office of Government has developed
and introduced a system of electronic signatures. The Taxpayer-3
system, too, allows for the circulation of digitally signed notices
and official letters to those entities with arrears. All the other
government agencies and regional administrations will have joined
the system within the next five years.

Representative of EU Mission in Armenia Uffe Ulse and program
coordinator Anthony Jaggus said the launching of the new system
provides a landmark on the way to creating a unified online network
for electronic management in Armenia.

The first-ever online tax return was presented in public during the
presentation ceremony.