ArmInfo. In the first quarter of 2020, the list of the largest taxpayers of Armenia continues to be headed by Gazprom Armenia, which paid 17.7 billion drams to the state treasury with an annual growth of 31.1%, of which 89.2 million drams - for customs duties, 2.1 billion drams ( including income tax, income tax) - for direct taxes, 15.5 billion drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax).
According to the published data of the RA State Revenue Committee, the five leaders paid a total of taxes to the budget 46.7 billion drams (with annual growth of 11.5%), of which 6.6 billion drams - for direct taxes (including income tax, income tax) and 37.7 billion drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax). In total, the 1000 largest taxpayers of Armenia paid 245.6 billion drams to the state treasury, exceeding the previous year by 11.1%.
The second place, as a year earlier, was retained by the Armenian-Canadian joint venture "Grand Tobako", which paid 15.3 billion drams to the state treasury (with an annual growth of 19.5%), of which 655.3 million drams - according to customs duties, 2.1 billion drams - for direct taxes (including income tax, income tax), 13.1 billion drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax).
The third place was taken by (against the 6th position a year earlier), having paid 5.4 billion drams to the state budget (with an annual growth of 38.5%), of which 1.2 billion drams in customs duties, 1.2 billion drams - for direct taxes (including income tax, income tax), 3.6 billion drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax).
CPA Oil Corporation moved up to fourth place from last year's 7th, having paid 4.3 billion drams to the state treasury (with annual growth of 13.2%), of which 30.1 million drams are for direct taxes (including tax on profit, income tax), 4.3 billion drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax). Closes the top five telecommunications company "MTS Armenia", a year earlier occupying the 202nd position. The company significantly increased payments to the state treasury from 199.2 million drams to 3.9 billion drams, of which, for customs duties - 4.4 million drams, for direct taxes - 1.1 billion drams, and for indirect taxes - 1.3 billion drams.
After them in the top ten are Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine (ZMMK) (6th position, versus the 3rd year earlier), (7th position, versus the 32nd year earlier), Electric networks Armenia (8th position, against the 4th year earlier), oil trader (9th position, against the 8th year earlier) and Aquilon Trade (10th position, against the 9th year earlier). It should be noted that, according to the results of the 1st quarter of 2019, TOP-5 included Gazprom Armenia CJSC (holding the championship since 2012), Grand Tobako JV, Zangezur Molybdenum Plant, Electric Networks of Armenia and GeoPromining. In total, they transferred 41.9 billion to the budget, of which 10.9 billion - for direct taxes (including income tax, income tax) and 25.8 billion drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax tax).
