YEREVAN. - It is necessary to help honest business and regulate the dishonest one, and not the other way round.

Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan stated the aforementioned on Tuesday at the discussion on the work carried out by the ministries in 2016 and the priorities for 2017, the Government press-service informed Armenian News – NEWS.am.

Chairman of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) of Armenia, Vardan Harutyunyan, reported that in 2016 the modernized border crossing points of Bagratashen and Gogavan on the Armenian-Georgian border were put into operation. Besides, work on the modernization of Bavra crossing point is underway. 

In his words, the SRC has put into commission the system of transit declaration submission. Furthermore, work was carried out on searching for interrelated taxpayers. Nevertheless, in 2016 the tax inspections reduced by 10,000 as compared to 2015.

Reconsideration of the risk criteria of the automated selectivity management system of taxpayers subject to risk management and inspection and the automation of the reception of information on tax violations from third persons remain the priorities for 2017.

PM Karapetyan, for his part, stated: “You must play the key role in improving the business environment. The first task is to have good relations with honest business, the second being the regulation of relations with not very honest ones. Those who don’t accept these rules must feel your presence all the time.”