{"id":254090,"date":"2014-06-02T16:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T12:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254090"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T12:46:25","slug":"armenian-government-declares-war-on-shadow-economy-to-collect-millions-in-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/02\/armenian-government-declares-war-on-shadow-economy-to-collect-millions-in-taxes.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Government Declares War on Shadow Economy to Collect Millions in Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">To fight the shadow economy, the Armenian government won&#39;t take legislative initiatives, but will go into dialogue with entrepreneurs, said RA Deputy Minister of Finance Armen Alaverdyan in conversation with journalists in parliament today.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Whoever you&#39;re referring to [i.e. entrepreneurs], they pay taxes; it&#8217;s just that the amount doesn&#8217;t satisfy us. We&#8217;re not talking about 10 million, 20 million [AMD]; we&#8217;re talking about hundreds of millions and billions, [the collection of] which we have to consistently implement,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Alaverdyan, if this work in the fight against the shadow economy is not carried out, the 2014 budget, for which 1 trillion 100 billion AMD in revenue is expected, will not be realized.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe deputy minister said his ministry will fight against the shadow economy in the areas of construction, milk and dairy products, bread and bread products, fuel, gas, and healthcare.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlaverdyan is convinced that the shadow economy is great in the area of imports, since entrepreneurs record low profitability or don&#39;t register employees.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe said that in the retail sector, attention will be paid to supermarkets. &quot;We have invited and met with more than 60 supermarket owners,&quot; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To fight the shadow economy, the Armenian government won&#8217;t take legislative initiatives, but will go into dialogue with entrepreneurs, said RA Deputy Minister of&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33760,33618,19672],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}