The state income committee of Armenia has published the list of the biggest 300 taxpayers in 2008. The media has already covered this issue and mostly compared to see whether the taxpayers paid more or less in 2008 compared to the previous year. The list of the biggest taxpayers has “hidden charm”, which comes out only when you examine the details.
It is worth mentioning, that the total amount of paid taxes is not written there and it takes much time to calculate because the state officials have left that job for those who are interested in it much. You can only calculate manually because the pdf file format downloaded from the official site does not allow this function. Before this publicati0on the previous publications were available for download in excel file, which allows to make calculations. Such calculation is very important because the above mentioned hidden charm can be discovered only after calculating the published figures.