Minassian: The flat tax has been a fiasco

The economic report is an initiative of the President, but did not affect his writing, told BNT Garabed Minasian, an expert from the Institute of Economic Sciences, author of the economic report commissioned by the President.

At the end of 2008 gathered for the first time we discussed various measures to address the crisis. Then 4 months after we met. At these meetings the president was not present but he was informed of the progress of discussions, „said Minasian.

In July he was present and discussed a report prepared comments, he said. These discussions to discuss issues that channeled the views, but some have turned aside from this line. The idea of the president and the task which he instructed the Director of the Institute of Economics Mitko Dimitrov, who is assistant to the president as head of the team is to gather a wide range of people to have different ideas, there is no one way to look at allegations commented expert. This is the fourth report, but the former does not induce such a reaction. We all know that the president has no powers makropolitikata, but I think he has the right to form such groups. The essence of this report is to form a philosophy of thinking, but this is a management program. The focus is ideas. They apply concepts such as management, „said Minasian.

The removal of the flat tax is an idea that we have to decide whether it is applicable. Gancho Ganchev is the author of this proposal, but I think that introducing a flat tax is a fiasco. All changes must be smooth and predictable, Minasian explained. Therefore endorse the government’s decision to remain for one year the flat tax, he said. The introduction of this tax is done with two arguments: because people will pay taxes and the second argument is that so much money will remain in the population. None of these arguments do not apply because the payment of taxes is an obligation and need to be monitored by the Ministry of Finance.

The money that remained in the population used in the concrete houses, a number of public activities, however, remained nedofinansirani he said. According to him the criteria in the ordinance, which attract foreign investment is leading profitability and security. One of the things that I can bring out the report is that the situation in the country does not require exotic and unusual measures. These are things that should have been incurred but not yet done, to have order in the country, said Minasian. The ideas of the economic report do not have a message to the president, a message to the community under the umbrella of the President. The report claims there is no government program or an alternative, but only wants to sort the ideas explained Minassian.

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