"Fact" daily writes:
As is known, from January 1, 2025, all citizens in Armenia will submit an income declaration, regardless of employment.
Many experts express the opinion that our country is not ready for the universal declaration system.
Even the deadline for submitting the annual income tax statement for 2023 was postponed. it was set in 2024. July 22.
About 3.5 months have passed since that deadline. "Fact" asked the SRC to answer the following questions: how many people had to submit an annual income tax statement for 2023? Who has been subjected to administrative responsibility and what amount of penalty and fine have they been subjected to?
The response received from the RA State Revenue Committee states that, according to the preliminary assessment, the number of potential declarants in 2023 was estimated at around 120 thousand people (according to the data, during 2023, around 60 thousand RA citizens were real beneficiaries, according to legal entities of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs according to the data of the state registry agency, about 40 thousand RA citizens were state employees, except for SNOCs and SNOCs, 1 billion and the number of participants of about 1,600 organizations with more turnover, including joint-stock companies, was estimated to be about 5 thousand RA citizens, and the number of persons reporting other income earners.
"Moreover, in the case of a person being a declarant on several grounds mentioned above (with the exception of persons who received a loan of AMD 20 million or more, on which the relevant information is missing), there may be repetitions in the mentioned number," the answer states.
SRC also informs that in 2024 as of October 20, 57,930 persons submitted income tax and social contribution calculations (statements), and as of October 4, a number of 3,727 warning decisions were made regarding the offenses defined by Part 3 of Article 169.1 of the RA Code of Administrative Offenses.
"It should be noted that the above-mentioned numerical data were collected according to the data available in the databases of the relevant structures and are very preliminary, because as a result of a detailed assessment, it turns out that the person initially assessed as a declarant may no longer bear this obligation, depending on the latter's citizenship, RA in cases of not being a resident and in the absence of other grounds for being a declarant, or in cases of duplication of data", the SRC answered.
