Armenian government is “vodka-tobacco” pals with oligarchs – newspaper

YEREVAN. – During Thursday’s Cabinet session, and while discussing a matter, Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said: “…when it was about the excise tax on vodka and tobacco…,” Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.   

“And the matter was about the ‘luxury tax.’ We should note that the requirement to levy luxury tax from the oligarchs was formulated and raised three or four years ago. But Sargsyan’s government rejected it for illogical reasons.     

“It is clear that the government is ‘vodka-tobacco’ pals with the oligarchs. And this type of tax is hardly to be applied now, too,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.