EU and Armenia today signed two agreements between the EU and Armenia on Armenia’s participation in the EU’s Customs and Fiscalis programmes.
This means that Armenia will be able to take part in the activities of both programmes alongside EU Member States and other participating countries. The agreements were signed by Mr Wopke Hoekstra, Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth and Mr Eduard Hakobyan a Chairman of the State Revenue Committee of the Republic of Armenia.
Armenia’s participation in Customs and Fiscalis programmes is an important step in further strengthening operational cooperation in the areas of customs and taxation, allowing Armenian’s customs and tax authorities to participate in various collaborative activities and to benefit from a wide-ranging training and human competency building activities portfolio. All these new cooperation avenues are of particular importance considering Armenia’s intention to get closer to the EU as being Armenia’s most important economic partner.
Fiscalis is the EU’s programme for cooperation in the field of taxation. Amongst other things, it allows tax administrations to work together in fighting tax fraud, evasion and aggressive tax planning. The programme also facilitates information exchange and administrative cooperation between authorities and helps to reduce administrative burdens and compliance costs for taxpayers.
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The Customs programme also promotes cooperation between authorities. The programme helps customs administrations to deal more efficiently with increasing trade flows and emerging trends and technologies, while providing a better response to security threats.