“HONEST TAX-PAYERS SHOULD NOT BE CHECKED”

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“I do not know, why the tax check-ins carried out in the enterprises of businessman, NA Deputy Khachik Sukiassyan are connected with politics and whether this tax-payer has been selected by the computer program or not. But we consider that tax check-ins should not be concurred with politics and only objective mechanisms should be considered in this matter in choosing tax-payers for check-ins. That will more productive for the State Tax Service. They should not check honest tax-payers”, said International Monetary Fund Resident Representative in Armenia Nienke Oomes to “A1+”. We should remind, that after the NA Deputy Khachik Sukiassyan announced of his intention to support Levon Ter-Petrosyan, all enterprises belonging to the Sukiassyans’ family were checked by the Tax Service.

The mentioned computer program is worked out by the RA State Tax Service (STS). This new program allows estimating the possibility of carrying out tax violations and is aimed at checking those tax-payers who are more likely to carry out violations. A month ago the STS published a decision, according to which “50 percent of the list of tax-payers to be checked-in should be selected from the first part of the list by the risk program”. “This is implemented in all developed countries, where the tax inspector does not decide whom to check. The possibility that this concrete tax-payer avoids paying taxes is based on serious analysis”, considers Nienke Oomes.

Within the frameworks of the 3-month program of International Monetary Fund which costs 35 million dollars and is implemented jointly with the RA Government, the Fund checks twice a year whether the Government has carried out all conditions or not. For checking purposes a delegation is invited from Washington to evaluate the economic situation in Armenia.

“The main idea of the program is to classify the tax-payers according to risk. Thus, we try to predict the possibility that a concrete tax-payer carries out violations. This depends on the number of violations in the past”, said Ms Oomes.