ArmInfo.At the end of 2019, the amount of taxes paid by the 1000 largest taxpayers
Armenia, amounted to 1 trillion 61 billion drams. Compared to 2018, the growth amounted to 122 billion drams (13%). The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan wrote about this on his Facebook page. According to the Prime Minister, compared with 2017, the amount of taxes paid increased by approximately $ 254 billion, or 31%.
"Before presenting the following fact, I would like to say that direct taxes (income tax, income tax) are more prone to shadow than indirect taxes. This is especially true for larger companies that are more willing to pay excise tax, VAT, since these taxes will be refunded from consumers, since these taxes are included in the sale price. Accordingly, from the point of view of tax administration, registration of direct taxes requires more effort than indirect taxes. We will take this into account and see how the share of direct taxes has changed s paid by the 1,000 largest companies in the past years ", - he wrote the prime minister. Accordingly, he continued, direct taxes paid in 2019 increased by more than 4.4 percentage points for compared to 2017. In particular, if in 2017, of all taxes (807 billion) paid by 1000 major companies, the share of direct taxes was only 252 billion (or about 31.2%), then in 2018 and 2019 the share of direct taxes amounted to 35.6% (335 billion in 2018, 378 billion in 2019). This indicates a qualitative change in the structure of taxes.
According to the prime minister, the fact that 81,534 jobs were created or removed from the shadows is also seen by large taxpayers. <In particular, if large companies paid 173 billion income tax in 2018 (this tax is deducted from wages), then in 2019 there has been a progressive increase - 208 billion drams (an increase of 20%). In January-December 2019, the 10 largest taxpayers paid about 257 billion drams to the state budget, which is about 23 billion drams, or about 10% more than in the previous year. 191 Armenian companies paid more than 1 billion drams of taxes in 2019. In 2018, there were 166 such companies, and in 2017 - 141. Similarly, in 2019, 361 companies paid more than 500 million drams in taxes. The number of such companies over the same period last year amounted to 320, in 2017 - only 285. In 2019, more than 555 companies paid direct taxes of over 100 million drams, in 2018 there were 497 such companies, in 2017 - 425, "Pashinyan wrote.
