The 16th meeting of the Coordination Council of Tax (Financial) Investigation Authorities of CIS Member States was held on October 9 in Yerevan. With the participation of the CIS executive committee and the invited parties, namely the representatives of Latvia and Georgia the council discussed the areas of fight against tax crime and the issue of cooperation between the states. Particularly, the scenario of improving cooperation between the tax investigation authorities of CIS member states in fight against violations in the area of opening overseas accounts was outlined. Methods of carrying out analytical activities were discussed that allow to reveal the relatively risky and criminal areas in economy and thus to organize the fight of the operational authorities aimed at ensuring the country’s economic security. Also, the importance of joint efforts of the member states in revealing VAT evasion factors were emphasized. The delegation of the RA Ministry of Finance presented Armenia’s practice in the area of fight against tax violations and listened to its partners from other states. “I think that sharing experience with our partners from CIS states and voicing problems of common concern will enable to find more effective methods and to use them in our work to ensure the economic security of our country,” mentioned Garik Darbinyan, Head of 2nd Division of Operational Investigation Department of the Main Department of Operational Investigation and Internal Security of the RA Ministry of Finance.
According to Chairman of Financial Investigation Department of State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus Igor Marshalov, the level of cooperation between the tax investigation authorities of the CIS member states is quite high: “Today cases of registration of overseas enterprises in the name of non-residents are quite frequent. Such crimes are quite difficult to reveal without cooperation. Joint efforts also allow us to reveal false entrepreneurship cases occurring on the territories of our countries.”
I. Marshalov passed the right of chairmanship of the Coordination Council of Tax (Financial) Investigation Authorities of CIS Member States to Robert Galoyan, Head of Main Department of Operational Investigation and Internal Security of Armenia’s Ministry of Finance.
At the conclusion of the meeting the representatives of Armenia, Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan signed a protocol.
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