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CHURCH BECAME BUSINESS AREA
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24027.html
Published: 16:44:35 - 01/11/2011
Talks on the controversial amendments to the legislation on Property
Tax, Land Tax and amendments to the Land Code of Armenia are still
going on.
According to Haykak Arshamyan, Candidate of Historic Sciences, this
process has a global and deep meaning because it means the state
and the government don't have concrete vectors of activities and are
wandering in other planes.
The historian noted that the fact that in 21 century the Church is
given new privileges and demand no taxes once again proves we live
in autocracy and the state instead of thinking about developing the
small and midsize businesses and easing the tax burden, eases the
tax burden of the Church, which is already minimal.
Haykak Arshamyan notes that for him more essential is the fact that
the Church accepts this step of the government adding that this has
serious grounds. According to him, the Church is becoming (like it
used to be in the Middle Ages) a major landowner corresponding to
today's oligarch.
He says that he sees no difference between the oligarch monopolists
who import goods and the church. Arshamyan says that in the same logic,
oligarchs could also be exempt from taxes.
The historian thinks this step is a specific calculation which is
the logical continuation of the Church-government-state link.
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24027.html
Published: 16:44:35 - 01/11/2011
Talks on the controversial amendments to the legislation on Property
Tax, Land Tax and amendments to the Land Code of Armenia are still
going on.
According to Haykak Arshamyan, Candidate of Historic Sciences, this
process has a global and deep meaning because it means the state
and the government don't have concrete vectors of activities and are
wandering in other planes.
The historian noted that the fact that in 21 century the Church is
given new privileges and demand no taxes once again proves we live
in autocracy and the state instead of thinking about developing the
small and midsize businesses and easing the tax burden, eases the
tax burden of the Church, which is already minimal.
Haykak Arshamyan notes that for him more essential is the fact that
the Church accepts this step of the government adding that this has
serious grounds. According to him, the Church is becoming (like it
used to be in the Middle Ages) a major landowner corresponding to
today's oligarch.
He says that he sees no difference between the oligarch monopolists
who import goods and the church. Arshamyan says that in the same logic,
oligarchs could also be exempt from taxes.
The historian thinks this step is a specific calculation which is
the logical continuation of the Church-government-state link.