ArmInfo. In 2020, the SRC's (State Revenue Committee) Inquiry and Operations Search Department carried out serious work to identify the shadow turnover of economic entities. As Vahan Charkhifalakyan, who heads the SRC's this Department, informed during a press conference on January 29, as a result of 493 operational-search measures, 8.5 billion drams of shadow turnover were revealed, as a result of which additional tax liabilities totaling 730 million drams were returned to the state budget.
At the same time, he noted that in 2019 the size of the shadow turnover amounted to only 1.5 billion drams, and as a result, an additional 214 million drams were sent to the state budget in terms of taxes. A predominantly shadow turnover was identified in the construction, retail and wholesale trade.
As Charkhifalakyan explained, such an increase in the identified shadow turnover is associated with an increase in the efficiency of tax administration, in particular, with the introduction of new approaches and criteria.
