ArmInfo. As a result of tax inspections, 1.5 billion drams have been restored and transferred to the state budget. This was announced on July 13 at a meeting with journalists by the chairman of the Committee of State Revenue (SRC) of Armenia David Ananyan. Meanwhile, on July 10 at a government meeting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reported on the restored funds in the amount of 800 million drams.
According to Ananyan, the process to identify the tax shortage will continue, in parallel, it will restore more funds to the budget. At the same time, the majority of the funds, already revealed within the framework of the comprehensive fight against corruption and the shadow economy over the past 1.5 months, 20.622 billion drams or $ 42 million, will be transferred to the state treasury.
At the same time, as the head of the SRC pointed out, one can not be guided by this amount when planning expenditures and revenues of the 2019 budget, or a medium-term expenditure program. "We need to assess not a few funds were restored, but the behavior of taxpayers changed as a result of these findings." Only by estimating the economic effect based on their behavior can the estimated costs be estimated, "he explained. At the same time, ensuring new revenues to the budget, he said, Armenia thereby indirectly reduces the risk of attracting new external borrowings to cover the budget deficit.
Previously, ArmInfo reported that it was only in the last 1.5 months that it was possible to identify 20.622 billion AMD or $ 42 million, which are subject to recovery and transfer to the state treasury. The government of these funds in 2018 will additionally allocate 10 billion AMD or about $ 30 million for granting subventions to the communities of the country.
