The head of the NA standing commission on financial and budget issues, Gagik Minasyan, does not know anything about inspection within the businesses owned by the Sukiasyans and cases of arresting people. Like his colleagues, all he knows he knows it from the information of Mass Media. However, Mr. Minasyan hasn’t read anything writing that any actions on the part of the taxation bodies have been in breach of the law. According to him, those requirements should be compulsory for all businesses, otherwise it is hard to imagine how the other businesses will fulfill their tax obligations. “Otherwise, businesses, not depending on the fact whether they are good or no, they can’t have 25% growth. Our state is 15 years old but now we are trying to increase the tax incomes by 1/4 of the incomes collected during these 15 years. It is clear that it is impossible to do that basing on small entities only,” G. Minasyan says. He thinks that there are no justified grounds to announce that there are political contexts in the fact that the taxation department is supervising Khachatur Sukiasyan’s businesses. “For the coming year the GDP growth is planned at 10% and the growth of our taxing rights – 28,2%. See how big the difference is. If you want to know where that 18,2% can be found from, the answer is that from the shady part of the economy and also due to helping competition,” G. Minasyan said. In such case we wander whether Mr. Minasyan doesn’t find it strange that Mika Baghdasarov’s “Mika Cement” company has cut down the capacity of taxes paid to the budget by 10 times than during the previous year, but despite that fact that taxation bodies are indifferent to that company. The deputy thinks that the taxation body should treat all companies equally.
