Yerevan Municipality exempts residents from fines for not paying for  garbage collection 

ArmInfo.  The City Hall will exempt citizens from paying fines for non-payment of garbage  collection, which have accumulated due to the inability to fulfill  their payment obligations through any system. The corresponding bill  was adopted on May 20 during a meeting of the Council of Elders of  the Yerevan City Hall.

In particular, as noted by the acting head of the City Hall's  Department for Accounting and Revenue Collection David Hakobyan, we  are talking about fines accumulated during the period from January to  May of this year. If any of the citizens has paid the fine, these  funds will be transferred to their account for payment of garbage  collection services.

Hakobyan reported that in order to fulfill their payment obligations,  citizens can already use various platforms, including the relevant  section of Yerevan.am, pay.e-community.am, Easy Pay, the  Armeconombank mobile application, at any HayPost branch, in their  district administration. It was also noted that TelCell and a number  of other commercial banks of Armenia will soon join the system.

During the vote, 42 members of the Council of Elders supported the  project, 2 were against and 16 abstained.

At the end of December last year, the city authorities announced that  from now on, the calculation of the fee for garbage removal will be  based not on the number of residents, as was previously the case, but  on the area of the residential property occupied.

According to the current procedure, in Yerevan, per capita, each  resident pays 200 drams per month for garbage removal. With the  innovations, as the acting head of the Yerevan Municipality  Department for Accounting and Revenue Collection David Hakobyan  assured back then, on average, garbage removal will become more  expensive for apartment residents by 80 drams, and for private houses  - by 180 drams.