YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. Over 500 economic entities, including some enterprises owned by Sil Group, are now being checked by tax bodies. The head of the State Tax Service (STS) adjunct to the Armenian government Vahram Barseghian said during a meeting with reporters that some checkings were done in August, and complex checkings are underway now. According to him, along with checkings at Pizza di Roma, they are conducting checkings at 300 shops, including, for example, the Star network of supermarkets. V. Barseghian informed reporters that tax bodies are conducting checkings not only at Bjni but also at Arzni and Jermuk Mother Plant as tax employees have adopted the approach of sectoral checkings. Two months ago they examined the poultry enterprises. In his words, at the moment of stock-taking at Bjni, goods of 102 million drams, which had been transported from the plant without documents, were registered in about 200 shops. Goods of 3-4 senders of about 150 million drams without documents (in addition to those of Bjni) were found at the shops checked. It was mentioned that as a result of the checkings done at Silvia LLC ownd by relatives of the Sukiasians, it was revealed that the company had concluded non-commodity deals of over 1 billion drams, creating false excess payments of 200 million drams for the state. As for checkings at Gala television company, V. Barseghian said that they have checked not the television company but its founder - Chap LLC, which was not checked since its foundation in 2001. In 2006-2007, tax bodies checked 7-8 television companies, including H2, TV5, Shant and others. According to him, Gala has submitted different reports to the tax body and the National Television and Radio Committee. The head of the STS stated that over the last 4-5 months, the monthly increase in tax revenues has made 8-10 billion drams. The same rate will be maintained in November and December 2007.

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