Armenia’s defender of Human Rights office today made a statement calling property confiscation by State Revenue Service anti-constitutional. The matter is that Armenia’s State revenue Service has the right to freeze property of those private businessmen and organization whose unpaid tax amount exceeds 500 thousand AMD or higher. Ombudsmen office has checked the constitutionality of the Articles 30 and 31 governing the process above-mentioned. As Ombudsmen office notes Article 31 of RA constitution prohibits confiscation of property except cases provided by the court. Directly pointing to the notion that confiscation includes the type of freeze of property which basically excludes chances for use of that same property, Human Rights Defender’s office proclaimed State Revenue Service actions anti-constitutional. The office has applied to Armenia’s Court of Constitution to check the constitutionality of the actions.
