{"id":255926,"date":"2014-07-10T12:42:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=255926"},"modified":"2014-07-10T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T09:21:00","slug":"armenian-oligarch-known-for-forging-vodka-brands-could-be-given-tax-break-armenian-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/10\/armenian-oligarch-known-for-forging-vodka-brands-could-be-given-tax-break-armenian-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Oligarch Known for Forging Vodka Brands Could Be Given Tax Break: Armenian Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The Government of Armenia at its meeting today will discuss the issue of granting a tax break of almost $1 million to A &amp; G Ltd. As reported by local daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armtimes.com\/hy\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong><em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> publisher Hayk Gevorgyan in today&#39;s issue of the paper, if the decision is adopted this company will be released from the obligation of paying a VAT of $1 million at the border and will be able to pay this tax after 3 years.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGevorgyan writes that it&#39;s impossible to find information online on A &amp; G, but one can get information from the Yerevan City chain of supermarkets belonging to Republican Party of Armenia MP, oligarch Samvel Aleksanyan (moniker: &quot;Lfik Samo&quot;). Nearly all the cheap bottles of vodka of dubious origin designed to look like expensive foreign brands that are sold in these supermarkets have A &amp; G Ltd. listed as the manufacturer.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA &amp; G, Gevorgyan writes, is the &quot;cousin&quot; of Samvel Aleksanyan&#39;s Alex Grig and is just as close to &quot;Lfik&quot; as Alex Grig.&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>The Government of Armenia at its meeting today will discuss the issue of granting a tax break of almost $1 million to A &#038; G Ltd. <!-- 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":252925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56775,56776,24435,21388,56372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255926"}],"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=255926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}