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    Arka News Agency, Armenia
    June 30 2006

    SHADOW SECTOR MAKES 45% OF ARMENIAN ECONOMY

    YEREVAN, June 30. /ARKA/. Shadow sector makes 45% of Armenian
    economy, Tigran Sargsyan, Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia,
    told journalist on Friday in Yerevan.
    "It means we have a real chance to double tax collection", the CBA
    head said.
    In his words, shady dealing rate in Western Europe and the United
    States is not higher than 10-15%.
    Sargsyan finds this 45 percent "a horrifying rate" saying it is a
    fundamental trouble hobbling the republic's economy.
    The CBA-conducted study showed that one can hardly to find even a
    dozen companies in Armenia to pay taxes in accordance with the law.
    In this connection, Sargsyan stressed the importance of the way of
    payment, not the amount paid.
    He said that this problem is badly in need of quick solution adding
    that tax collection share in GDP in Armenia is reckoned among the
    lowest even in comparison with CIS member countries. M.V. -0---
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