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    BOOK PRICES JUMP IN YEREVAN STORES

    Tert.am
    02.03.12

    Despite the statements that the the book-publishing policies remain
    unchanged, with the government not raising the tax rates, the prices
    yesterday remained high in the bookstores of the capital city,
    a Dashnak lawmaker has said.

    Speaking to Tert.am, Lilit Hovhannisyan of the opposition Armenian
    Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) faction in parliament,
    said she was dissatisfied by the finance minister's comments that
    the legislation regulating the sector does not propose any changes
    in book prices.

    At the recent Q&A between the National Assembly and the cabinet,
    Minister Vache Gabrielyan said no new clauses were proposed to the
    existing legislation, noting that the misunderstandings were caused
    by misinterpretations unrelated to book-publishing.

    Bookinist is one of the rare stores that still maintains the book
    prices low, but will inevitably change its policies, the director of
    the shop, Khachik Vardanyan, told Tert.am.

    He considers the executive's interpretations wrong, claiming that
    there have been changes in the price policies. "Any literate person
    can visit the websites and see the changes concerning the value added
    taxes on books."

    He said that the new legislation requires deducting taxes from the
    total book sale proceeds.

    At the meeting with the cabinet members an agreement was reached to
    allow the stores to receive books in accordance with the previously
    existing rules until a new clause is elaborated to make the procedures
    legal.

    Vardanyan said the new law applies not only to books, but also other
    products - cloths, confectionaries - whose prices may also surge in
    the near future.

    Earlier, the activists of a group, We are Against Surging Book Prices,
    sent a letter to Prime Minister TIgran Sargsyan, calling for action
    to free them from what

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