ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Dec 6 2007
Tsarukyan: Armenia’s tax agencies must concentrate their focus on
large entrepreneurs
YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/. Armenia’s tax agencies should
concentrate their focus on large entrepreneurs, Gagik Tsarukyan,
Prosperous Armenia party leader and the head of the party’s
parliamentary faction, said on Thursday.
He said that tax agencies should pursue stricter policy toward them
than small- and mid-scale entrepreneurship.
In his opinion, small AMD middle entrepreneurs need the freedom
enabling them work.
Tsarukyan thinks that `when their turnover exceeds $10,000 and
reaches $20,000 or 50,000, then more attention will be paid to them,
like to us’.
Speaking about tax inspections in SIL Group run by MP Khachatur
Sukiasyan, he said that all companies in Armenia undergo inspection
once a year.
`If all paperwork runs properly, tax agencies’ harassment is
impossible. Sukiasyan is entrepreneur and my friend, but today we
have different ideas and programs’, he said.
Tsarukyan also said: `We live in 21st century, and everybody can
freely express his views’.
He said his establishments are inspected as well.
`All my directors and accountants are warned that they are
responsible for every irregularity. We demand from them nothing but
fair work’, Tsarukyan said.
Earlier, Khachatur Sukiasyan said he supports Levon Ter-Petrosyan,
former Armenian president, and is not afraid of possible problems
connected with his companies’ activities.
SIL Group is one of Armenia’s biggest concerns.
Some companies included in the concern have been inspected and tax
evasion found out there. M.V.-0—
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
