YEREVAN. – As a result of inspections of the real sales amounts and prices of goods in 2020, 493 measures were carried, as a result, a shadow turnover of 8.5 billion drams was revealed, and as a result, taxes have increased by 730 million drams. Vahan Charkhifalakyan, head of the Investigation and Operative-Search Department of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) of Armenia, told this to a press conference on Friday.

According to him, in 2019, a total of 87 similar measures were carried out, as a result of which the sales turnover had increased by 1.6 billion drams, and the additional taxes—by 214 million drams. "The growth in 2020 is connected with the effective work of the SRC and the introduction of new control mechanisms," the SRC official added in particular.