Armenian Premier Says Tax and Customs Officers Should Abandon Old Working Methods
16.05.2008,
19:07
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargssyan said Armenian tax and customs officers should no longer use their old working methods.
YEREVAN, May 16. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargssyan said Armenian tax and customs officers should no longer use their old working methods.
“The priority task is to overcome the psychological complex of tax and customs officers. They must learn to work with new methods giving up the old ones, including those with direct business involvement,” Sargssyan said at a meeting of premier-affiliated Business Support Council.
When tax and customs officers come to a mutually beneficial agreement with businessmen, it is then the government that suffers most.
“This psychological complex should be overcome which is quite a difficult task” Sargssyan said. The government is going to toughen the punishment for abuses meanwhile sharply raising the salaries paid to the employees of these services.
A social package ensuring a long-term job and high salary will be suggested to the employees, the premier said. “It is much more preferable to have a stable and long-term job than jeopardize their jobs and succumb to temptations,” the premier emphasized.
Among other participants of the meeting were Vahram Barseghyan, Chief of the State Tax Service and Acting Chairman of the State Tax Committee, Ashot Shahnazaryan, Chairman of the State Commission for Economic Competition Protection, as well as AEPLAC Armenia Office Director, EBRD Armenia Office Director, Chairman of the Armenian-Canadian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Chairman of the NKR Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen, Armenian businessmen and representatives of different associations and public organizations. --0--
“The priority task is to overcome the psychological complex of tax and customs officers. They must learn to work with new methods giving up the old ones, including those with direct business involvement,” Sargssyan said at a meeting of premier-affiliated Business Support Council.
When tax and customs officers come to a mutually beneficial agreement with businessmen, it is then the government that suffers most.
“This psychological complex should be overcome which is quite a difficult task” Sargssyan said. The government is going to toughen the punishment for abuses meanwhile sharply raising the salaries paid to the employees of these services.
A social package ensuring a long-term job and high salary will be suggested to the employees, the premier said. “It is much more preferable to have a stable and long-term job than jeopardize their jobs and succumb to temptations,” the premier emphasized.
Among other participants of the meeting were Vahram Barseghyan, Chief of the State Tax Service and Acting Chairman of the State Tax Committee, Ashot Shahnazaryan, Chairman of the State Commission for Economic Competition Protection, as well as AEPLAC Armenia Office Director, EBRD Armenia Office Director, Chairman of the Armenian-Canadian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Chairman of the NKR Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen, Armenian businessmen and representatives of different associations and public organizations. --0--
