ArmInfo.The National Assembly of Armenia made an addendum to the law "On social service card numbers" on the first reading on September 13. According to Vache Terteryan, the First Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Development, currently there is a whole range of services in the country, in particular, the salary of a citizen, his income, taxes, duties, opening a bank account, maintaining the base of state and municipal structures, must necessarily be done if there is a social card number.
"As a result, there was a paradoxical situation in which, on the one hand, the law required mandatory availability of a social card number, and on the other, the absence of this card," the deputy minister said. In this regard, the submitted document proposes to make an exception on the part of public servants paying taxes, duties, mandatory payments to the budgets of local government bodies without the presence of a social card number.
Moreover, today many citizens of the country do not have identification cards. For this reason, the document is allowed for a period of 1 year to use for payments of taxes, duties and mandatory payments valid in the country's passports and identification cards. It is envisaged that in a year the digitization of the data of the public servant will be completed, after which the transition to the implementation of payments using social card numbers will take place.