On April 1, 2025, an awareness meeting was held at the "Wine Corner" hall in Ashtarak, initiated by the Investment Council of Armenia and supported by the Association of Accountants of Armenia

On April 1, an awareness meeting was held at the "Wine Corner" hall in Ashtarak, initiated by the Investment Council of Armenia and supported by the Association of Accountants of Armenia.
The purpose of the meeting was to present the support programs, legislative reforms, and the procedures for accessing them—developed within the framework of the SME state-private dialogue platform led by Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan—to representatives of SMEs in the regions. Another objective was to introduce the changes in the turnover tax. The meeting was attended by around fifty business representatives, financiers, and accountants from the region.
The following topics were discussed during the meeting:

• Income tax refund support program for manufacturing companies,
• 0–4% subsidized loans for purchasing equipment,
• Differentiated model of penalties resulting from violations of fiscal receipt (cash register) rules,
• Raising the threshold for bad debt write-offs,
• A new opportunity for businesses participating in public procurement-to receive payment through factoring from a bank immediately after winning a tender.

In the second part of the meeting, Gohar Parsadanyan, a member of the Association’s Council, presented the changes in the turnover tax, answered participants’ questions, and legislative issues were mapped and discussed in a roundtable format. The Association of Accountants of Armenia will continue to take part in regional awareness meetings to support business representatives and provide clarifications on the issues that concern them.