YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. A regular 4-day session of the RA National Assembly started on November 10. There are 44 issues and 4 international agreements on the agenda. Among agenda issues are also the draft law on the 2009 state budget of the RA and several bills related to the above mentioned draft. After approving the agenda, the parliament passed in the first reading the package of the bills discussed during the previous 4-day session, by which amendments and additions are envisaged in the Law on the Use of Cash Registers, the Law on the Suspension of Activity of Users of Cash Registers, and the Law on the Budgetary System of the RA. Based on an amendment, it is envisaged, in particular, allocating 30% of the fines imposed for violation of the rules of the use of cash registers and the rules of calculations by using cash registers to the Fund for Development of the System of Tax Bodies. By another amendment, the Fund for Material Encouragement of the Customs System will aslo be formed from administrative fines imposed for violation of the customs rules, as well as from additional customs payments transferred to the state budget as a result of ckeckups.

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