With this bill, the government recommends registering the incomes of citizens having more income than 500.000 AMD per month as of January 1, 2007. NA deputies don’t like this idea at all. However, they can’t find any answers to questions about the flaws of this bill. Concerning this, deputy head of the RA taxation services, Armen Alaverdyan asked what the reason was for not voting for that and added that the Rule of Law deputies complained that the mentioned law would mean that villagers would have difficulties registering their incomes. He said that the average monthly income of villagers was 38.000 AMD and 35.781 AMD for people working in state bodies. Accordingly, there are barely any villagers whose incomes are over 500.000 AMD. According to him, there are no more than 70 state employees receiving a salary more than 500,000 AMD. For instance, head of the Central Bank gets this much money. With the purpose of making deputies believe that this is a good law he brought examples about other countries and said that there are countries that don’t even have an income limit and all citizens have to register their income. He also said that the mentioned law was very important for fighting against corruption.
There was an interesting coincidence: the deputies that made the voting fail didn’t attend the voting this time either. There were only several MPs, some of which didn’t even pay attention to what Mr. Alaverdyan was saying. It seemed as though they were not against that bill and were interested in other things.
Will this law, which was the reason for the conflict between the executive and legislative branches, actually be adopted? The government wants this law to be adopted. As for the parliament, they agreed with it at first and later boycotted the voting without having any serious reasons for that in the end.
Now these powers are working to make each other believe their points and it depends on them whether this law will be adopted or not. As for villagers, they follow the deputies mentioning their names for no reason backing them up. They are of the opinion that this is the beginning of the pre-election campaign.