State Revenue Committee Urges to Avoid Criminal Schemes Aimed at Tax Evasion

The State Revenue Committee of Armenia has uncovered criminal schemes aimed at evading taxes within the Investigation and Operational Intelligence Division. According to information from the committee's press office, operational data received periodically revealed that various individuals and the actual or factual beneficiaries of certain organizations deliberately devise criminal mechanisms to avoid paying taxes or create characteristics of intentional insolvency.

In this context, individuals involved in criminal groups often register limited liability companies using the names of socially vulnerable citizens or direct these individuals to be registered as individual entrepreneurs. Subsequently, various types of goods are imported from EAEU member states into the Republic of Armenia in their names without submitting tax declarations, thus avoiding tax payments. In another case, documents are presented without fulfilling tax obligations.

The Investigation and Operational Intelligence Division of the State Revenue Committee has initiated several similar criminal cases, with investigations ongoing in the committee's investigative division. Furthermore, analysis of operational data suggests that these serious or particularly serious crimes are organized by several criminal groups operating with the same 'modus operandi.'

The State Revenue Committee's Investigation and Operational Intelligence Division is engaged in a daily, uncompromising fight against the uncovering and prevention of such criminal mechanisms and urges citizens to refrain from creating commercial organizations without the intention of conducting entrepreneurial activities and from obtaining state registration as individual entrepreneurs. The committee simultaneously warns the actual beneficiaries of organizations that those found establishing such criminal mechanisms with the intent of tax evasion will face legal consequences to the fullest extent of the law.