ArmInfo. Ministry of Justice of Armenia together with the State Revenue Committee and the Finance Ministry is preparing a legal framework for providing QGD inspectors with appropriate technical means. RA Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan stated this at a government meeting on January 9.
According to him, the use of technical means is necessary in order to record violations in case of non- receipt of checks of cash registers during trading operations. As the Minister noted, 80% of cases on this issue are usually rejected by the courts of the country, since it is difficult to prove the fact of non-receipt of checks. Often, sellers appeal that they did not carry out trading operations. The use of technical means will eliminate this possibility. The Minister recalled that 2 years ago this mechanism was developed, but was not applied due to objections from the Ministry of Finance. The main problem here, as the minister stated, is the problem of interference in the personal lives of citizens. By the joint efforts of the three departments, as Badasyan noted, there is an opportunity to solve this problem.
In his turn, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan urged to resolve this issue as soon as possible. According to him, over the past 1.5 years, significant changes have taken place in the field of Cash machines , an unprecedented increase in the volume of issued checks has been noted, but there is still significant untapped potential in this area. He pointed out the importance of involving citizens who do not have the appropriate leverage. "Our task is to ensure that citizens of the country possess such levers, and not only during trading operations. A cigarette butt thrown out of a car, garbage flying from a neighbor's window are all problems that need to be solved. Often, a person who has recorded such violations will encounter with the discomfort associated with his calls to testify, various kinds of proceedings.For this reason, citizens prefer not to pay attention to these offenses, and our task is to find such mechanisms that would allow citizens am to control the situation in the country with minimal discomfort for them, "the RA Prime Minister stated. He added that he was not personally interested in the methods of administrative influence, he was interested in the issue of budget funds not being robbed. And the lack of checks is a direct theft of budget funds, Nikol Pashinyan emphasized.
We note, however, that recently, business entities have faced a deficit of cash machines. In November last year, the head of SRCDavid Ananyan said that in late November - early December 2019, businesses will be able to import the first batch of cash registers (CRM) of a new generation into Armenia. David Ananyan then recalled that by the decision of the government of May 2018, the cash registers market was liberalized. At that time, about 4 thousand applications for new vehicles were registered with about 14.5 thousand cash registers in SNCO "Office for the implementation of cash registers".
But the demand significantly exceeded expectations for a number of reasons: the use of the new generation of cash registers has become mandatory since January 1, 2019, many business entities have come out of the "shadow". In addition, the legislator decided that SNCO s are authorized de jure from November 1 to serve, while free of charge, only business entities operating in border regions. Today, there are about 100-110 new devices at the Office's warehouse with a demand of more than 10 thousand spacecraft, he noted. After the start of the liberalization of the CRMs market, which de facto started in October 2018, a number of organizations took certain steps towards importing new vehicles. At the same time, as the chief tax specialist pointed out, there is a technical problem that needs to be addressed if there is a desire to provide importers with access to the Cash Register machines market.
As the head of the Committee explained, today the legislator requires that the new generation of CRMs have the function of a POS terminal. To implement this function, in turn, there is a need to coordinate work with banking institutions, which will take a long time. As a result, SRC suggests, while providing all the other requirements for the device, to give the green light to its implementation with the condition that the POS terminal function will be activated over the next 6 months. "By doing this we will allow the economic entities involved in the process to import devices as quickly as possible," - said Ananyan.
ArmInfo reported a problem, according to which there was a shortage of CRMs on the market, since the use of a new generation of CRMs became mandatory from January 1, 2019. Earlier, the Armenian government has repeatedly extended the terms for their implementation - initially until January 1, 2016, and then - until the beginning of 2017 and 2018. In February 2019, the government announced that it would subsidize
