{"id":282635,"date":"2017-10-31T17:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282635"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:33:16","slug":"officials-have-right-to-live-in-armenia-too-state-revenue-committee-chairman-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/10\/31\/officials-have-right-to-live-in-armenia-too-state-revenue-committee-chairman-argues.html","title":{"rendered":"Officials \u2018Have Right to Live\u2019 in Armenia, Too, State Revenue Committee Chairman Argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The private business owners opposing the amendments to the Tax Code are merely resorting to manipulation to avoid paying taxes, State Revenue Committee Chairman Vardan Harutyunyan told reporters at the National Assembly on Tuesday, commenting on the small and medium-sized business owners\u2019 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/10\/31\/hundreds-of-business-owners-protest-against-tax-code-amendments-outside-parliament.html\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">demonstration<\/span><\/a><\/strong> outside the parliament building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone will pay taxes. You (addressed reporters) have to stand by us and not support those who are trying to evade taxes by holding demonstrations. You have to explain to them that they cannot avoid paying taxes,\u201d Harutyunyan stated. He added that small and medium-sized business owners are merely trying to conceal their real turnover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everyone is like that. There are, of course, law-abiding business owners, and we are thankful for these people. But there are those who try to hide under the veil of social vulnerability and poverty to push their agenda,\u201d the Chairman said and pointed out that he was not talking about the Tsarukyan Alliance head, tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan.<\/p>\n<p>The reporters reminded Harutyunyan that those who had gathered outside the National Assembly were arguing that instead of fighting the shadow economy in wholesale business, the authorities were increasing tax pressures on small business owners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s greater shadow in retail. By combating the shadow in retail business, we are also reducing the shadow in wholesale,\u201d he countered. Harutyunyan then disagreed with reporters\u2019 arguments that most businesses in Armenia belonged either to state officials or their children: \u201cWho said officials or their relatives have no right [to own businesses]? My sons have greenhouses and agricultural lands. Don\u2019t they have a right to live in this country?\u201d<\/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>There are, of course, law-abiding business owners, and we are thankful for these people. But there are those who try to hide under the veil 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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66047,66058],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282635"}],"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=282635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}