ArmInfo. For the Armenian authorities, maintaining tax secrets is not an end in itself. This was stated by Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia David Ananyan at a hearing in the parliamentary commission on financial-credit and budgetary issues of the National Assembly on February 4.
According to him, expanding the list of issues related to tax secrecy, which the group of deputies of the Armenian parliament insists on, should be the subject of public discussions. Ultimately, the country's main tax official continued, tax secret is understood as commercial secret. "More recently, we opened administrative proceedings in connection with the appeal of one of the business entities that complained about data leakage to one of our competitors," said David Ananyan. He also stated that the issue of maintaining tax secrecy is also a subject of internal security, and tax officials are personally responsible for this. Nevertheless, the head of the SRC called for a public discussion on this issue, based on the results of which, perhaps, a reasonable decision will be made. "The problem does not rest on whether the SRCemployees are ready or not to disclose information, but whether the public is ready for this," said David Ananyan.
It should be noted that at present only the draft amendments to the law "On Bank Secrecy" are in circulation, according to which the court will be able to receive information from banks about the accounts of financial offenders and their relatives.