The "Fact" daily writes:
Official data on the Statistical Committee are puzzling for the public. The citizen feels inflation with his own pocket.
Continuing inflation in food is reducing its income every day. Nairi Sargsyan, head of the "Armenia I am EU" initiative, says when we talk about inflation, it refers to the total price of 400 products.
"Certainly, most of that do not buy more than half of Armenia's population, do not use them. Therefore, in the vicinity of 3.5%, the total inflation is the falsification that everyone sees every day. It's not so much inflation.
Both imported frozen or fish farms have been increased by 20 to 22 percent (total total calculation), and the fruitions of 13, fruits, and vegetables are inflation, 47, chocolate, 13, coffee-tea, 15 percent (last total computation).
The causes of each are different due to the uncertainty of sellers or economic entities under the incompetent management, which has ended its incompetent management.
When the government is constantly increasing taxes, it will definitely lead to inflation, ie 2025. Since January, the increase in compulsives could not have a direct impact. When the 5% rate of trade becomes 10%, regardless of the reductions, we calculated that in case of trade, the tax burden increased by about 33%. Increasing 33% of the sales of various products can be affected in different ways.
For example, imported vegetables or fruits can affect 50 to 80 percent and so on. In other words, what we see in the store is due to the increase in tax rates, "Sargsyan told" fact ".
He emphasizes that state control in the field of food in Armenia is not provided by the government by the Government.
"For example, in connection with the volume of consumption market. Imports or export restrictions are not applied, conditionally, the potato manufacturer produces a year, the market arises deficit, inflation under inflation. The people have such a behavior that sees, the price of potatoes increased, or the neighbor sowed potatoes and gained a good profit, everyone begins to sow potatoes next year.
In that case, the market is overview, in case of supervision, prices are decreasing.
In many cases, they say that the functional duty of price regulation is legal on the Central Bank, but in the scientific, academic world has not yet substantiated that the Central Bank is able to influence inflation or restrain it.
The officials say such a thing, and different specialists, but they are just myths who read and pronounce the same textbooks. I repeat, such a thing in the world has not justified anyone.
The main reason for inflation is a fiscal policy, that is, it is constantly raising taxes, state expenditures are constantly creating uncertainties, do not provide market control, they do not plan, it should lead to inflation, "says our interlocutor."
Every third child in Armenia is in poverty. This figure regularly reminds about it. On the other hand, the indicators of poverty on this fiscal policy will not become more growing.
In 2018, those who came to power said they would fight against poverty. What was done in this direction for seven years? "It has been pursued to increase poverty after 2018, but at least 1 reduction has been implemented.
Let's start with salaries. If there is no economic development, after that does not arise the potential for raising salaries. If the potential for increasing does not occur, it does not occur.
If we analyze the structure of salary in Armenia, the increase of the average salary is conditioned exclusively by providing many surcharges of the public sector.
Also in several spheres: banking, insurance, communication operators, mining, gas and electricity, high officials, ie the high salaries of management staff.
