Yesterday the head of the SIL Concern Saribek Sukiasyan made a statement offering two steps of overcoming the global economic crisis in Armenia. “One of the most important questions is the preservation of the present job posts. The state has to encourage the enterprisers not to dismiss their workers. The principle should be the lessening of the tax duties. It is understandable that if workers lose their jobs, they appear on the edge of self-destruction, because they do not have any other means to survive. So, the state has to enable the job giver to keep the present job posts, thanks to the lessening of their tax duties. Moreover, with the same lessening of the tax duties, the state has to create new job posts, has to present concrete proposals to the enterprisers: in exchange of increasing the number of job posts, the state diminishes the tax duties of the enterpriser. This is a completely acceptable and civilized way to soften the impact of the crisis with joint efforts. Alongside with securing the protection of the vulnerable spheres of the public, the state has to enable the enterprisers, who take loans from the state, to prolong the terms of the loans, through the Central Bank. If the small and midsize businesses registere a decrease of realization, the state has to prolong the terms of the loans to give the possibility to the enterprisers to pay off the loans and to continue their regular activities. Even in case of a decrease of the scale of the realization of their own production, the enterprisers should not bear harms. This will exclude outdated obligations of entrepreneurs. Decent credits should be provided.”
