Salaries won’t rise in 2012
The Armenian government's 2012 social-economic policy will mainly be aimed at maintaining the macroeconomic stability and the salary rates, especially the force structures.
The government will provide the National Security Service with 11.6 billion drams, which is 702 million drams more than the sum provided in 2010. As for the Police, the 2012 budget foresees 25-721 million drams, which is 1.55 billion drams more than the sum provided in 2011.
These sums are foreseen for maintenance of social order (24 million drams), printing of blank passport sheets (173 million drams), as well as for the parliamentary elections (248 million drams) and local self-government elections (248 million drams). The participants of the discussion on the draft budget recorded that the salaries of police officers in Armenia are the lowest among the countries of the CIS.
President of the State Revenue Committee Gagik Khachatryan said he was very concerned about the tax entries worth more than 101 billion drams.
"Tax entries can't be provided at the price of overpricing. We are still clearing extra prices that have been accumulated before," President of the State Revenue Committee Gagik Khachatryan said.
He assured that the SRC had no desire to trouble small and medium enterprises. According to Khachatryan, 82 percent of tax incomes should be taken from 3,000 large enterprises.
