ArmInfo. The four telecom operators of Armenia for the H1 of 2020 paid a total of 15.8 billion drams to the budget through taxes, which is 47.7% higher than the indicator a year ago. Of this amount, 9.9 billion was paid in direct taxes (including income tax, tax on profits) and 6.8 billion in indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax).
According to the RA State Revenue Committee, the leader among communication operators in Armenia is MTS Armenia (VivaCell-MTS trademark), which paid 6.8 billion drams to the state treasury in the H1 of 2020, of which 18.3 million drams - for customs duties, 2.7 billion drams - for direct taxes (including income tax, tax on profits), 2.9 billion drams - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax). In the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers, "MTS Armenia" (VivaCell-MTS trademark) moved up to 10th position from 37th a year earlier.
VEON Armenia (Beeline trademark) allocated 4.2 billion drams to the budget through taxes, of which 1.1 billion - directly (including income tax, tax on profits) and 1.8 billion - indirectly (incl. VAT, excise tax), and payments on customs duties amounted to 11.4 million drams. In the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers of VEON, Armenia moved up to 15th place from 24th a year earlier.
UCom, transferred 3.9 billion drams tax payments to the budget , of which 12.7 million drams - for customs duties, 870.6 million drams - for direct (including income tax, tax on profits) and 1.6 billion drams - for indirect (including VAT, excise tax), went down in the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers to 17th place from 14th a year earlier. GNC-ALFA (a trademark of Rostelecom) paid 807.2 million drams tax payments to the budget, of which 2 million drams for customs duties, 354.5 million for direct taxes (including income tax, tax on profits) and 400.2 million - indirectly (including VAT, excise tax), jumping in the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers to 113th place from 176th year earlier.
To recall, in the H1 of 2019, the four telecom operators in the total amount paid about 10.7 billion drams to the budget through taxes, of which 2.8 billion drams for direct taxes. At that time, UCom was the leader among operators in terms of tax payments, followed by VEON Armenia, MTS Armenia and GNC-ALFA. (Estimated exchange rate for AMD as of June 30, 2020 - 482.36 AMD / $ 1.).