Armenian tax inspectors check not only "Yerevan City" but all  supermarkets of the country

ArmInfo.Armenian tax inspectors check not only "Yerevan City but all supermarkets of the country, Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of Armenia David Ananyan  announced on August 23 in a conversation with journalists, commenting  on rumors that only in supermarkets belonging to the family of the  Armenian parliament member, former member of the Republican Party of  Armenia (RPA) Samvel Aleksanyan were revealed hidden taxes.  

According to him, inspections continue in other supermarkets of the  country. At the same time, the head of the department has ruled out  the possibility of continuing the previous practice of selling  agricultural products through establishing individual entrepreneurs.  "There is no such practice and can not be, I rule it out," he  assured.

Davit Ananyan also responsibly declares that in the last year in the  company owned by Samvel Aleksanyan, not a single case was recorded  when raw sugar imported from abroad was registered as produced in the  republic. "Ananyan added that there is no legal justification for  conducting revision of earlier documentation. 

To note, the opponents of Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan  earlier accused the new authorities that tax inspectors are checking  only those supermarkets whose owners have any relation with the  former authorities.

To recall, on May 30 the National Security Service of Armenia  announced the disclosure of the scheme by which large retail chains  evaded taxes for years. By establishing numerous individual  entrepreneurs, Alex Holding LLC instead of VAT at a rate of 20% and  the profit tax paid only the turnover tax (2%), documenting the goods  on fake individual entrepreneurs. As reported by the NSS, according  to reliable data, the previous leadership had given a similar  opportunity to 11 other large companies involved in chain trading,  which created obviously unfavorable and unequal competitive  conditions for other enterprises involved in agricultural trade, who  paid VAT. "Therefore, the latter is invited to independently  recalculate unpaid taxes on the above schemes and provide relevant  information to the preliminary investigation to resolve the issue of  compensation for damage within the production," - said in a statement  of the department. Already on August 1, in response to a request from  ArmInfo, SRC said that the additional tax liabilities amounting to  5.2 billion drams (about $ 10.7 million), presented to Alex Holding,  owned by the family of a member of the Armenian parliament, ex-member  of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Samvel Aleksanyan, have been  completely restored. According to the information, in the  investigation of the criminal case investigated by the Investigation  Department of the National Security Service of Armenia, Alex Holding  was charged with checking the accuracy of the relationship with the  budget. As a result of a joint inspection of various units of the  SRC, under the verification act of July 26, 2018, the company was  presented with additional tax liabilities amounting to 5.2 billion  drams (VAT and income tax) payable to the state budget.