"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"For the accounting year of 2024, until May 1, 2025, all persons who had an employment contract in the previous year must fill in an annual declaration of income, which is not only difficult, but also costly for the citizen, and profitable for the state.
"Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper presents what payments a citizen must make in order to fill out his own declaration. Thus, the process begins with the acquisition of an ID identification card.
The amount paid for the identification card goes to the state budget through the state payment.
In order to receive the identification card in 20-21 days, it is necessary to pay 3000 AMD. However, if you want to receive the identification card sooner, the payments are made in the following amount:* 3,000+20,000 AMD to receive the identification card within 1 working day,* 3,000+ AMD 10,000 to receive the ID card on the 3rd working day,* 3,000+5,000 AMD to receive the identification card on the 5th working day.
It should be noted that there is one ID card printing device in Armenia, which, as previous experience has shown, works for part of the year, and is broken during other times.
It turns out that the long-established system, which should have been stable, has become a scourge on the head of an ordinary citizen. Thus, we paid an affordable 3000 drams for an identification card.
Next, you need to get an electronic signature. For an electronic signature, you will need to go to the office of one of the telephone operators. If your SIM card is not new, you need to pay AMD 500 to attach the electronic signature to the phone number.
We paid AMD 500. Next, you need to pay AMD 3,000 to Ekeng, the Electronic Government Infrastructure Implementation Office, in order to activate your electronic signature.
Another 3,000 drams were paid. It turns out that one person should pay 6,500 drams to prepare for filling out a declaration. According to the latest data published by the Statistical Committee, in 2024 in October, the number of employees in Armenia is 785,195 people, SRC President Eduard Hakobyan also noted that this year more than 700,000 citizens are obliged to declare.
If we multiply 700 thousand by 6 thousand 500 drams, then 4 billion 550 million drams will be obtained, almost 11.6 million US dollars. If we take into account the fact that the 500 drams given to the telephone operator and the 3000 drams paid to the Ekeng system are taxed by those structures, this figure may be subject to change.
However, it should also be noted that in any case, the universal declaration will increase the RA state budget by billions of drams.
Calculations are made on the basis of information posted in open sources, which do not include the commission kept by terminals during payments."
