Wednesday, 22 July 2009
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended the presentation of “Taxpayer-3” system held at Erebuni Plaza Hotel in Yerevan. The software was made possible through the joint efforts of the Government Staff of the Republic of Armenia, the Ministry of Economy and the State Revenue Committee by the Government with close support of the European Union.
The Taxpayer-3 system provides an online automated tax return receipt management tool. SRC Head Gagik Khachatryan briefed the participants – top-ranking public officials and entrepreneurs – on the assets of this system, which will enable the SRC management to follow from the headquartered computers the operations of local inspectorates. It can get all types of returns online. Domestic taxpayers will be provided electronic passports reflecting their past records. A risk assessment criteria-based automated system will be available to allow identification of such entities as may prove subject to checkups. As a result, taxpayer-tax collector relationship will be given a qualitatively new format.
Either the State will benefit from this system thanks to the facility of direct and synchronized data entry into the SRC data base from all regions of Armenia, the shaping of a confidence-building environment for fast contact with taxpayers and reduced number of tax returns submitted in hard copies.
Chief of Government Staff David Sargsyan advised that for a while now documents are circulated online between the Government Staff, the ministries of economy, finance, territorial administration, Diaspora and foreign affairs and Kotayk marz administration. With the help of the World Bank, the Office of Government has developed and introduced a system of electronic signatures. The Taxpayer-3 system, too, allows for the circulation of digitally signed notices and official letters to those entities with arrears. All the other government agencies and regional administrations will have joined the system within the next five years.
Representative of EU Mission in Armenia Uffe Ulse and program coordinator Anthony Jaggus said the launching of the new system provides a landmark on the way to creating a unified online network for electronic management in Armenia.
The first-ever online tax return was presented in public during the presentation ceremony.
