YEREVAN, OCTOBER 17, NOYAN TAPAN. There are 80 big trade organization points with a total of 9,144 trade places where 2,900 cash registers were installed as of October 17. The deputy chairman of the RA State Revenue Committee Armen Alaverdian said at a press conference on the same day that 5 companies engaged in the import of cash registers will soon supply more than 4,000 cash registers to fairs. The number of cash registers ordered under the agreements signed between the importers and the trade organizers makes 7,302. According to A. Alaverdian, these figures bear evidence of the fact that serious progress has already been achieved in the introducton of cash registers which began a month ago. At the same time he noted that the introduction process is not so successful in regional centers, in particular, in Armavir, Kotayk, Abovian, Gyumri, Vanadzor and Martuni. He reminded that those trade organization points which will not meet the licensing requirements, including the availability of cash registers, will have to stop their activities. A. Alaverdian announced that over 20 trade organization points stopped their work for this reason. It was mentioned the the Committee's hot line receives complaints that some shop assistants are forced to purchase cash registers with their own money, whereas, as A. Alaverdian underlined, cash registers must be purchased by organizers of trade points. He said that it is envisaged completing the introduction of cash registers at trade points in late October. In his words, the experts of the Committee assist orgnaizers of trade points as well as cash register importing companies in order to finish the introduction process as soon as possible. Some versions of receiving data through the network of cash registers at trade points are being discussed now.

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