NEW MINISTER FOR STATE INCOMES IS GOING TO TOUGHEN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST "SHADE" ECONOMY

PanARMENIAN.Net - 08.11.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "As former businessman, I'm going to actively cooperate with the business circles of the country, which will make impossible the administrative pressure upon the tax-payers", said Andranik Manukian, the newly appointed Minister for state incomes of Armenia in the interview to Mediamax.

Mr. Manukian said that it's necessary to form an equal tax field for all the taxpayers and to toughen the struggle against "shade economy". A. Manukian said that in his forerunner's estimation the "shade economy" in Armenia makes up 40 per cent.

Mr. Manukian stressed that the urgent task of the ministry today is to provide necessary tax revenue in November and December 2000, for which "corresponding resources are being searched out".

Andranik Manukian didn't exclude that in early 2001 the State income ministry will put forward legislative initiatives on amendments to tax and customs legislation. -0-