ArmInfo.The four telecom operators of Armenia reduced tax payments to the state treasury in the first quarter of 2019 by 45.6% per annum - to 3.1 billion drams ($ 6.3 million). In particular, in the reporting period, 444.1 million drams were paid in customs duties, including direct taxes (including income tax, income tax) -949.5 million drams, on indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax) -1.9 billion drams.
This is evidenced by the list of the largest taxpayers of Armenia published by the RA State Revenue Committee.In this list, following the results of the first quarter of this year. telecom operators ranked as follows: UCom ranked 14th (versus 9th a year earlier), VEON Armenia CJSC (BeeLine trademark) - 74th place (versus 21st a year earlier), "GNC Alpha "(Rostelecom trademark) - 150th place (against 106th a year earlier)," MTS Armenia "(VivaCell-MTS trademark) - 202nd place (against 18th year earlier).In the first quarter of 2019, UCom deducted 2.1 billion drams in taxes to the budget (an annual decline of 16%), of which 431.2 million were in customs duties,592.9 million - on direct taxes (including income tax, income tax) and 1.3 billion on indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax)."VEON Armenia" (BeeLine trademark) allocated 541.7 million drams to the budget for the reporting period (annual decline of 58.4%), of which 1.7 million drams were for customs duties, 203.5 million for direct taxes ( including income tax, income tax) and 281.6 million- on indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax).
"GNC Alpha" (Rostelecom trademark) paid 261.5 mln AMD to the budget for the first quarter (annual decline of 18%), of which0.230 million - on customs duties, 106.6 million - on direct taxes (including income tax, income tax) and 118.8 million - on indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax)."MTS Armenia" (VivaCell-MTS trademark) deducted 199.2 million drams (87.6% annual decline) to the state treasury for the reporting quarter, of which10.9 million drams - on customs duties, 46.5 million drams - on direct taxes (including income tax, income tax), 128.7 million drams - on indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax ).It should be noted that in the first quarter of 2018, the four largest telecom operators in the total amount paid 5.7 billion drams to the state budget in the area of taxes, with an annual growth of 5.6%. At that time, they were located in the following order: UCom, "MTS Armenia" (VivaCell-MTS trademark), "VEON Armenia" (BeeLine trademark), "GNC Alpha" (Rostelecom trademark). (Estimated dram rate on03/31/2019 amounted to 486.44 dr / $ 1).