"Fact" daily writes:
Abolition of tax benefits for SMEs, raising taxes by six times, increasing the cost of lawyer services, and, as the lawyers themselves state, they will be deprived of the opportunity to provide free legal assistance , are disturbing, and more precisely, we are dealing with tax terror, which, in fact, will be carried out at the state level by the Chairman of the Chamber of Auditors Sargsyan says that these changes are only a small part of the overall "reforms". The 2024 budget will under-collect 237 billion drams is our calculation of October collections and November-December projections.
Of course, 237 billion can become 300 billion. We note that the collection of taxes will be 200 to 300 billion drams less , that is, 2024 and 2025 on 2025 the financial burden is 450 billion drams. This cannot be done because we do not have the economic potential, the volume of products is not increasing, tourism has decreased, the transfer of remittances by those who travel abroad has decreased. In this situation, there are only two ways out: either an increase in tax rates, or an expansion of taxed facilities," said Sargsyan in an interview with "Pasti".
He emphasizes that they have started with the provision of services: "That is, by raising the taxes of certain professional service companies. It is predicted that it will be about 132 billion drams, that is, the taxes should be brought from there. We have to wait for 2025 and inflation. Due to this, the prices of general consumption items will increase, and we also predict that the prices of public services such as electricity, gas, water and other such services may increase. The last two years, in particular, tend to tax education and health services.
450 billion drams should be distributed among small and medium-sized businesses and all citizens of Armenia or in the atmosphere of fear they cannot raise a wave of protest, they also take advantage of it and carry out these increases", our interlocutor notes.
Addresses what consequences this may have. Legal and accounting services help small and medium-sized businesses. All individuals in Armenia must submit a declaration.
Taxes on accounting services increase, this means that the cost will increase by more than 30 percent for all individuals. Second, it is often the case that they become victims of injustice to be able to benefit from the protection of their rights. They will face problems. as a result, the tax authority can impose taxes. They will apply to legal or accounting organizations to protect their rights, but they raise the cost of the latter's services so much that they cannot apply to them, making these services unavailable to individuals. On the one hand, they solve the problem of budget revenues , on the other hand, they constantly exert influence on individuals, so that no one has independent expression, and lives in an atmosphere of constant fear," says the chairman of the Chamber of Auditors. All this, of course, is an influence. will have on inflation.
"It will have two types of effects. On the one hand, we are talking about mandatory services, which one way or another, this is an increase in expenses. On the other hand, there is no possibility of increasing income. Let's take an example from the third point of view The tax burden of those shops will increase, they will use accounting and legal services at a high cost.
It is natural that they should include it in the price of food. In that price distribution, our society will be affected twice. Once when purchasing a service, the next indirectly when purchasing a product In this case, the high cost of services will already be included. or it creates an atmosphere of fear and terror among people," our interlocutor notes. In the last few days, the draft of the state budget for 2025 is being discussed. It became clear that we will have an increase in the state debt, there is no provision for pensions and benefits raising the minimum wage, a rather modest economic activity rate of 5.6 percent has been set "The budget project remains very dangerous. It promises the Armenian society that there will be inflation and the society will become poorer.
And secondly, the budget of Armenia does not create economic opportunity, potential, potential.
From the next perspective, Armenia's public debt is expected to increase from 14 billion dollars, which means that the citizens of Armenia who have not become adults, including those who have not yet been born, will have to be under a high tax burden in the future in order to be able to service this debt. These are the 2025 budget dangers, it has absolutely nothing to do with the development of Armenia," concludes Nairi Sargsyan. LUSINE ARAKELYAN
