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    CHURCH BECAME BUSINESS AREA

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country24027.html
    Published: 16:44:35 - 01/11/2011

    Talks on the controversial amendments to the legislation on Property
    Tax, Land Tax and amendments to the Land Code of Armenia are still
    going on.

    According to Haykak Arshamyan, Candidate of Historic Sciences, this
    process has a global and deep meaning because it means the state
    and the government don't have concrete vectors of activities and are
    wandering in other planes.

    The historian noted that the fact that in 21 century the Church is
    given new privileges and demand no taxes once again proves we live
    in autocracy and the state instead of thinking about developing the
    small and midsize businesses and easing the tax burden, eases the
    tax burden of the Church, which is already minimal.

    Haykak Arshamyan notes that for him more essential is the fact that
    the Church accepts this step of the government adding that this has
    serious grounds. According to him, the Church is becoming (like it
    used to be in the Middle Ages) a major landowner corresponding to
    today's oligarch.

    He says that he sees no difference between the oligarch monopolists
    who import goods and the church. Arshamyan says that in the same logic,
    oligarchs could also be exempt from taxes.

    The historian thinks this step is a specific calculation which is
    the logical continuation of the Church-government-state link.

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