ArmInfo. The four telecom operators of Armenia for the first half of 2019 paid a total of 10.7 billion drams to the budget through taxes, which is 23% less than the indicator a year ago, of which 2.8 billion - for direct taxes (including income tax, income tax) and 4.2 billion for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax).
According to the RA State Revenue Committee, the leader among Armenian telecom operators is UCom, which has allocated 4.8 billion drams to the budget for taxes, of which 63.9 million drams for customs duties, 1.1 billion drams for direct taxes (including profit tax , income tax) and 2.4 billion drams - indirectly (including VAT, excise tax), which took 14th place in the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers, compared to 18th year earlier.
BEON Armenia (Beeline trademark), which paid 3.1 billion drams to the budget through taxes, of which 1 billion - on direct (including income tax, income tax) and 1.2 billion - on indirect (including . VAT, excise tax), and payment of customs duties amounted to 13 million drams, took the 24th place in the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers, compared to the 17th year earlier.
"MTS Armenia" (VivaCell-MTS trademark) paid 2.3 billion drams to the state treasury in the first half of 2019, of which 18.2 million drams - for customs duties, 406.4 million drams - for direct taxes (including tax for profit, income tax), 323.8 million drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax). In the general list of the 1000 largest taxpayers, MTS Armenia (VivaCell-MTS trademark) takes the 37th position, against the 11th year earlier.
JN Alpha (a trademark of Rostelecom) paid 499.3 million drams to the budget, of which 1.4 million drams - for customs duties, 199.2 million - for direct taxes (including income tax, income tax) and 244.6 million - indirectly (including VAT, excise tax), taking the fourth place in the general list of the 1000 largest taxpayers, 176th versus 126th a year earlier.
Recall that in the first half of 2018, the four telecom operators in the total amount paid out about 13.9 billion drams to the budget through taxes, of which 5.6 billion drams fell to the share of the leader - MTS Armenia. (The calculated exchange rate of the dram as of June 28, 2019 was 477.11 dr / $ 1).