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"Fact": They also pocket people through property taxes

  • Writer: Lida Nalbandyan
    Lida Nalbandyan
  • Feb 15
  • 2 min read

The "Fact" daily writes: "Perhaps only Pashinyan was capable of "interpreting" and proposing the multiple tax increase as a means of enriching the one who pays the tax by squealing. Yes, we are talking about the property tax, which is already striving for astronomical proportions. Naturally, this has caused great dissatisfaction among both citizens who own apartments and real estate (especially in the center of Yerevan), and especially among businessmen who own commercial premises.

And Pashinyan, with his characteristic gestures and vocal inflections, came out of the NA rostrum and said, "Don't you have money to pay property taxes? Why did you stay in Kentron? Sell that house, leave it, go to the outskirts or another region." The supposed head of government says such things, "forgetting" that a resident of the Kentron administrative district of Yerevan may simply be an elderly person, an ordinary pensioner. "Forgetting" that people may have received a three-room apartment, which is now considered expensive, decades ago, during the Soviet era, passing it down from generation to generation. Finally, "forgetting" that not every resident of Kentron is a millionaire, nor is he a government official with a lot of bonuses.

In addition, Pashinyan is also deliberately exaggerating the moment when house prices are rising. Two years ago, yes, there was something similar with the influx of relocators, but that wave has long since died down. Moreover, it has nothing to do with property taxes.

In short, there are significant contradictions related to this issue, which further emphasize that the government led by Pashinyan is simply busy also getting into the pockets of citizens with property taxes and... making manipulative excuses for this "legalized" pocketing.

And then, what does Pashinyan's slander mean, that if you can't pay property taxes, sell your houses... Or maybe that's how it should be, so that those who have suddenly become rich in these years will have an additional opportunity to buy a house in Kentron? Perhaps, everything is to be expected from this government."

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