State Revenue Committee chief meets with major Armenian taxpayers

Head of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) Edvard Hovhannisyan on Monday held a meeting with over 400 major Armenian taxpayers to hear the existing concerns and proposals and agree on future cooperation efforts.

The discussion capped the series of meetings bringing together tax agencies and taxpayers with an aim of fostering the developing dialogue over the pressing problems in the tax and customs administration.

Summing up the outcomes of 2020, a year full of challenges and complexities, Harutyunyan emphasized taxpayers’ essential role in ensuring the annual records. “Taxpayers’ participation in the net tax revenue was essentially high – 71% or 773.3 billion Armenian Drams (AMD 527 = USD 1), which is a very prestigious and at the same time responsible record for you. We attach importance to taxpayers’ participation in business processes and consequencly treat you as pivotal role-players in securing tax revenues,” he noted.

Highlighting the partnership component of the meetings, Hovhannisyan said he also expects that the kind of format will help clarify the framework mutual activities. “The Committee attaches a primary role to the quality of the services rendered, to which the numerous activities in the sector bear a clear testimony in point of fact. We prioritize the mutual willinginess and practical steps towards the strengthening of the SRC-business partnership platform,” he emphasized.

Hovhannisyan meantime pointed out to the frequently occurring infringements, reminding the businessmen of the Committee’s continuing work towards develoiping analytical capaicities and oversight tools. He called upon the participants to raise the problem potentially underlying the infringments in an effort to facilitate the Committee’s work towards achieving solitions and ensuring the businesses' disciplined behavior.

Informing the entrapreneurs of the decision to incorporate a provision on taxpayers’ disciplined status into the Tax Code of Armenia, the Committee’s chief said they intend the new measure to offer privileges to law-abiding businessmen. “As [owners of] already accomplished business[es], we expect you, in the first place, to demonstrate a disciplined behavior to help us outline also other business sector representatives’ style of work,” he added.                  

The businessmen attending the meeting raised numerous questions dealing with such procedures as rapid customs clearance, determinations of the customs tariff, as well as labelling of customs cleared goods. Apart from Hovhannisyan, also deputy chiefs of the Committee responded to the questions and concerns. For purposes of discussing, and offering joint solutions to, the problems requiring in-depth solutions, Hovhanniesyan asked the responsible officials to hold working meetings with the interested sides.

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