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PRICES WILL INCREASE AGAIN
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24220.html
Published: 15:15:09 - 16/11/2011
While the parliament is discussing tax amendments and introduction
of new taxes, enterprises have already added the added taxes to the
prices of their products.
As a result of change to the excise tax on alcohol, the price of 0.5
liters of locally produced beer may go up by 21 drams, stated the
president of Yerevan Beer Company Hakob Hakobyan. According to him,
consumption of beer may drop.
No doubt other products will also get expensive and once again the
ordinary citizens will have to bear the major enterprisers' burden
of increase of taxes.
The government officially does not interfere with prices. Exercising
this "right", the government provides full price freedom to importers.
The Anti-Monopoly Committee did not react to the information of the
businesswoman Silva Hambardzumyan who stated that markup on sugar in
Armenia imported by Samvel Alexanyan is 100%. The Committee may say
that it did not receive any written report but it does not change
anything because its chairman stated a week ago that the prices of
sugar in Armenia are justified.
No need to doubt that after tax amendments Alexanyan will raise the
price of sugar, and the Anti-Monopoly Committee will justify the
prices once more. It cannot be otherwise. The government did not set
mark-up limits which the enterprises cannot pass. It benefits from
this situation.
Who will the government support? Will it finally set to defend the
rights of citizens or will this function again be considered as
secondary to the virtual eminent domain?
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24220.html
Published: 15:15:09 - 16/11/2011
While the parliament is discussing tax amendments and introduction
of new taxes, enterprises have already added the added taxes to the
prices of their products.
As a result of change to the excise tax on alcohol, the price of 0.5
liters of locally produced beer may go up by 21 drams, stated the
president of Yerevan Beer Company Hakob Hakobyan. According to him,
consumption of beer may drop.
No doubt other products will also get expensive and once again the
ordinary citizens will have to bear the major enterprisers' burden
of increase of taxes.
The government officially does not interfere with prices. Exercising
this "right", the government provides full price freedom to importers.
The Anti-Monopoly Committee did not react to the information of the
businesswoman Silva Hambardzumyan who stated that markup on sugar in
Armenia imported by Samvel Alexanyan is 100%. The Committee may say
that it did not receive any written report but it does not change
anything because its chairman stated a week ago that the prices of
sugar in Armenia are justified.
No need to doubt that after tax amendments Alexanyan will raise the
price of sugar, and the Anti-Monopoly Committee will justify the
prices once more. It cannot be otherwise. The government did not set
mark-up limits which the enterprises cannot pass. It benefits from
this situation.
Who will the government support? Will it finally set to defend the
rights of citizens or will this function again be considered as
secondary to the virtual eminent domain?