ArmInfo.On May 30, a meeting was held under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, at which the issue of introducing a system for declaring personal income was discussed, as well as a schedule of measures to introduce this system.
According to Nikol Pashinyan, work is underway to introduce a number of important legislative changes that will have a significant impact on the tax system, and in general, on the system of declaring property and income of citizens. These changes, as the prime minister noted, are aimed at increasing the country's potential, changing relations between the state and the citizen, and, in general, changing expectations from the state budget of the country. In fact, Nikol Pashinyan continued, the state budget is the aggregate amount of the state, the country's national pocket, in which funds are accumulated, which are then used. And when questions arise related to the economy, social life, education, science, culture, infrastructures, it is important to understand that speed and quality are necessary to solve these problems. It is also important to understand the relationship between citizens and the government, the degree of transparency of these relations. "I believe that our government is very transparent, more transparent than any other government in the country. And we will continue to move forward in this process. Ultimately, transparency should become a national mentality," said the Prime Minister. He pointed out the importance of having political will to implement all of these changes.
At this stage, as the prime minister noted, there are two fundamental changes - the introduction of new forms in the property tax system and the introduction of a system for declaring personal income. The importance of these systems has been reaffirmed in the context of government anti-crisis measures. Often there are questions related to social insecurity, who needs assistance in the amount of 100 thousand drams, and who does not. There have been cases when this assistance was received by persons who do not need it. And if the country had a universal declaration system, all these issues would be resolved. The picture would be complete, indicating the name, surname, position held, salary, which would help in determining the addressee of social assistance.
