ArmInfo. The deadline for filing an online personal income calculations (declarations) in Armenia may be extended. The ArmInfo correspondent was informed by acting Head of the Information Technology Department of the State Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia Lusine Ayvazyan.
Since 2023, the introduction of a system of universal income declaration for all resident citizens of the republic has begun in Armenia. The process will be organized in three stages, and the number of people required to submit a declaration will increase every year. The implementation of the system will be completed in 2025. At the first stage, a declaration of income for 2023 will have to be submitted by citizens who, as of December 31, 2023, hold municipal or state positions in accordance with the law "On Civil Service". In addition, the first stage includes citizens of the Republic of Armenia who, as of December 31, 2023, are participants (shareholders, joint owners, members) of commercial organizations resident in the Republic of Armenia, who declared gross income of 1 billion drams or more at the end of 2022, as well as those citizens who are considered the real beneficiaries of the RA Law "On Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism," as well as those who received a loan in the amount of 20 million drams or more in 2023. In order to submit an income declaration, RA citizen declarants will have to verify their identity electronically, and RA non-citizens will have to register with the State Revenue Committee and gain access to the system.
As Ayvazyan explained, in the first case, it will be possible to identify in "Yes em" ("Me")national system for identification, https://www.ekeng.am/ru/esem. There will be two ways to identify yourself in the system. In particular, through an ID card and a mobile app. In this case, you need the ID card to be equipped with a chip (and its PIN/PUK codes should be preserved) and have a reading device (ID cards issued before February 15, 2023 had a similar capability; others will have to reapply for a card from the Ministry of Internal Affairs). And for the MID process (via a SIM card), you will need to visit the service office of any mobile operator with an ID card, where a SIM card will be provided. After the identification stage, an individual will have to obtain a taxpayer registration number (TRN) in a simplified manner (already in his personal account) and proceed to the stage of filling out a declaration. The process, at first glance, is not complicated. However, despite the fact that by May 1, 2024, the first group of declarants will have to file a tax return, and according to SRC observations there are approximately 120 thousand of them, as of April 11, about 5 thousand declarants reported income. Here we note that initially, when introducing the system of universal income declaration of all resident citizens of the republic, it was noted that declarations should be submitted before April 1, only then, taking into account , it was decided to postpone the deadline until May 1.
Judging by reviews on the Internet, many declarants encounter difficulties at the identification stage. . If an individual has a TRN, login and password with which he has been submitting a personal income tax return for 5 years, for example, from renting out, shouldn't these passwords also work in this case? Do you need to register somewhere else?>, , , , : write the declarants, turning their attention to the IT specialists of the Tax and Customs Committee. Meanwhile, as Lusine Ayvazyan notes, SRC is not the body responsible for identification issues, they are beyond the authority of the department. If you have questions about identification, including providing an electronic signature and an ID card, she urges you to contact the EKENG company and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "The State Revenue Committee is interested in ensuring that the process proceeds as smoothly as possible for citizens. In this regard, even before the implementation of the program, numerous discussions were held with both EKENG and the Digitization Office. And the State Revenue Committee applied the clear decisions they provided," Ayvazyan notes.
However, the legislator threatens to impose sanctions on those who do not deliver on time or enter something incorrectly. Is the tax office, taking into account the short deadlines (by the way, the SRC presented the electronic platform with which taxpayers can submit a declaration only on March 21) and the shortcomings of government agencies, ready to meet ?
"The State Revenue Committee understands the situation, even if the problem is not within the jurisdiction of our department. In view of this, at this stage the possibility of extending the deadline for filing a declaration and not imposing fines for possible lateness is being discussed. The final decision has not yet been made," the representative of the department noted.
