Legal entities permitted not to pay state dues in courts in Armenia

YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. Armenian Parliament members passed the amendments to the country’s law about state.

The amendments give individual entrepreneurs and legal entities an opportunity to get exemption from state due payments.

Armenian Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielyan said that the amendments invalidate item 4 of article 22 of the law saying that individual entrepreneurs and legal entities cannot be exempted from state due payments.

This approach is inadmissible as it is not equal to persons and legal entities and violates the principle of equality before the law and the court.

The Minister also pointed out that the mentioned provision is in conflict with the country’s Code of Civic Procedures envisaging equality of physical and legal entities before the law.

Currently different amounts of state dues are paid in effecting various legal operations. Basic amount of the state due is 1,000 Drams (approx. 3 dollars). N.V. –0--