ArmInfo. The State Revenue Committee should study the situation with cash registers and solve the problem of their deficit. On January 21, Ani Samsonian, a lawmaker from the Bright Armenia faction, said this from the rostrum of the parliament.
According to her, business entities cannot start their activity due to the lack of cash registers on the market. Having registered the tax code, they attempt to get these devices in the Committee, which takes a long period of time. After that, the SRC recommends that they contact licensed companies, for some reason information about which they receive from the List.am website where the price of the device is 170-200 thousand drams. "Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan assured that the new generation registers will be available for 60 thousand drams. A paradoxical situation has arisen in which the market is liberalized and there are no devices," the lawmaker stated.
To recall, on December 17, at a press conference in Yerevan, Deputy Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of Armenia Edward Hovhannisyan said that he could not say when the issue of providing cash registers would be decided. He recalled that the new generation of registers market is liberalized, and at the moment there are business entities that import them into Armenia. "They go through the software stage. A number of problems have arisen in connection with the technical characteristics of these devices, because they do not meet the established technical criteria, as a result of which they are refused certification. That is, the issue will be resolved when business entities import the appropriate equipment into the republic, ready for sale, "he explained.
ArmInfo reported the problem of shortage of cash registers on the market, since the use of new-generation reisters was mandatory from January 1, 2019. In February 2019, the government announced that it would subsidize the difference between the cost of new cash registers equal to 158 thousand drams and its selling price of 60 thousand drams, spending about $ 5 million for these purposes. This, as announced, concerned 25 thousand tax agents. But already on May 10, the head of the SRC announced that due to the lack of a new generation registers, they will be given in order of priority to those taxpayers who have just registered and do not have registers at all. The situation is aggravated by the fact that on December 10, during a Facebook live broadcast, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that from January 1, 2020 in Armenia there will be no concessions for the non-issue of cash receipts. According to the Prime Minister, the state has done everything possible so that from January 1, 2020 there would be no "reasons" to not issue cash receipts. There will be no justification for the organization or the person who does not issue the cashier's receipt to the buyer, and responsibility for this act, as Pashinyan pointed out, will be proportional to the punishment for theft from the soldier. "Starting from 24:00, 2020, we are forming a new attitude towards the institution of issuing cash receipts," the Prime Minister stated.