Gagik Khachatryan is forcing his friend into bankruptcy (video)
Director of “Tigran Mets” publishing house Vrezh Markosyan has no trouble that the tax authorities will follow him as it happened with Ashot Aghababyan and Hakob Hakobyan, “When they come, we will know at that time.” He doesn’t think that he needs to get along with the authorities, he will try to be a conscientious taxpayer. But the statistics show that the Armenian budget has problems with money, investments and exportations have decreased drastically, “I don’t think that the statistics are so accurate. The beer factory belonging to the Republican Party member Hakob Hakobyan was fined more than 650 millions AMD, “There is nothing deliberate.” Mr. Hakobyan is the close friend of the Minister of Finance Gagik Khachatryan. And in fact, his friend is forcing the co-owner of “Yerevan beer” company into bankruptcy, “Of course we will go bankrupt, we just cannot pay such amount of money.” Mr. Hakobyan doesn’t agree that the authorities are following the big business in order to fill the budget, as there are no small and medium-sized businesses in Armenia anymore, “We don’t have saved money so that one can take it into the budget.” In general, BHK faction member Lyova Khachatryan isn’t delighted with our tax authorities, they misapply the inspections, but in the absence of small business, they have no alternative, “And as transfers and fines form our budget, every day they must check our business entities up to the last one.” Mr. Khachatryan has many entrepreneur friends, who went bankrupt. They left Armenia, as they can do nothing against the wrong economic policy of the authorities, “The number of entrepreneurs has decreased compared with last year, the number of population and the number of transfers have also decreased and the amount of taxes has remained the same.” The Republican Party member Sukias Avetisyan isn’t surprised. Tax inspections are commonplace, “It doesn’t matter who is the owner of the organization.” The lawmaker explains that just for that reason they wanted to document the turnovers of small and medium-sized businesses, “You have seen that small and medium-sized businesses complain “start from the big businesses, why are you starting from the small ones?” Sukias Avetisyan accepts that internal and external turnovers have decreased. But it has happened in the whole world and only China recorded economic growth last year.
