“We are going to make very bold decisions in the near future, starting with property tax and ending with other tax changes,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared during a consultation on the concept of tax reforms.
“The logic and purpose of those bold decisions is that state revenues must increase, in such a way and with such logic that they give the economy the opportunity to develop, so that they increase even more in the future. And people must change their attitude toward paying taxes that exists today in the Republic of Armenia,” Pashinyan said.
The Prime Minister’s Office’s Department of Information and Public Relations reports that Pashinyan noted that every citizen of Armenia must be convinced that a government has been established in the Republic of Armenia that does not steal from them and does not steal from anywhere at all, and not only the government but the entire state system in general.
“The second is the continuous increase in the efficiency of the costs of maintaining the system of state governance, that is, we must convince our citizens every year that we spend the money they pay in a targeted, efficient and correct manner, including how the employees of the state governance system are paid, starting with bonuses and ending with other social guarantees. I think that today all the necessary political conditions for this have been created by the results of 2019, that we must also ensure high remuneration for the employees of the state governance system, while guaranteeing their high qualification,” the Prime Minister said.
Discussed were issues related to strengthening and spreading the culture of inevitably paying taxes, providing tax exemptions by sector, introducing a system of income declaration, tax collection, and a number of other issues.
Nikol Pashinyan noted that the presented concept must become the foundation of the tax reform strategy, and when discussing and refining it, the issues must be considered in the context of ensuring long-term solutions as well as interoperability with other conceptual documents.
