Sergey Paturyan
Armenia

Sergey Paturyan, head of IT department in the Ministry of the State Revenues of Armenia, was an IREX visiting scholar with the ISP from March-May 2001. During his visiting he performed research on tax administration in Armenia as well as holding an internship in Washington, D.C. His research at the GSU was devoted to the process of tax reforms in countries in transition that are shifting from a centrally-planned to the market-based economies. He particularly focused on tax reforms in the states of the Former Soviet Union. With the assistance of Jorge Martinez he worked on a paper, "A Note on Recent Tax Reforms in Armenia".