Government won't overlook oligarchs
President of the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia Arsen Ghazaryan says the government will be able to collect more taxes worth 101 billion drams in 2013 than the previous year. "If we truly reduce the amount of shady economy and collect taxes from all representatives of the economic sphere, that money will be collected, even if it is collected with difficulty. That is, of course, if another economic crisis doesn't start," Mr. Ghazaryan told "A1+".
He also informed that he had expressed this view during the meeting with RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and members of the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia. "We have expressed our concern that the criterion is rather high for the government in the pre-electoral year and we have received the prime minister's interpretation. Based on that, we understood that there is a higher demand for creating a field for competition."
The discussion allows Ghazaryan to say that the government won't circumvent oligarchs. "I am sure that the government pictured the oligarchs on the list of businessmen for creating equal competition and equal tax collection."
Arsen Ghazaryan is rest assured that if the government relies on small and medium businesses for collecting taxes in 2013, it won't be able to collect more taxes worth 101 billion drams than the previous year. "I am sure that they mean that and that taxes will be collected from representatives of small, medium and big businesses."
