Heads of CIS tax services meet in Yerevan

RIA Novosti
October 09, 2004

HEADS OF CIS TAX SERVICES MEET IN YEREVAN

YEREVAN, October 9 (RIA Novosti) – The 7th session of the
coordination council of the CIS tax services’ heads opens in the
Armenian capital on Saturday.

Changes in the coordination council’s staff and reports on the
execution of previous council’s decisions on the development and
efficiency of CIS economic cooperation in 2003-2010 are on the
session’s agenda, said the press service of the Armenian State Tax
Service.

Moreover, the participants will discuss the analysis of small
business taxation systems used in the Commonwealth of Independent
States, analyze the activities of the CIS tax systems in 2003,
consider the mechanism of registration of the identification numbers
of taxpayers, draft the convention on mutual administrative
assistance in tax issues, and discuss the use of the agreement to
avoid double taxation and the plan of the coordination council’s work
for 2005.

The coordination council of the CIS tax services’ heads was
established on May 31, 2001. At the moment it is led by chairman of
the State Tax Service under the Armenian government Felix Tsolakyan,
elected for one year in October 2003.

The previous session of the coordination council took place in Minsk,
Belarussian capital, on May 29, 2004.