ArmInfo. In January-September 2020, the four telecom operators of Armenia paid a total of 23.3 billion drams to the budget through taxes, which is 13.1% more than a year ago. Of this amount, 11.8 billion were paid by direct taxes (including income tax, tax on income) and 9.9 billion - on 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 AMD 10.4 billion to the state treasury in January- September 2020, of which AMD 22.6 million - for customs duties, 3.4 billion AMD - for direct taxes (including income tax, tax on income), 4.4 billion AMD - for indirect taxes (including VAT, excise tax). In the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers, "MTS Armenia" (VivaCell-MTS trademark) moved up to the 9th position from the 16th year earlier.
VEON Armenia (Beeline trademark) allocated 6.3 billion drams to the budget in taxes, of which more than 5.1 billion in income tax. In the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers of VEON, Armenia moved up to 13th place from 18th a year earlier.
UCom, which transferred 5.5 billion drams to the budget in taxes, of which 21.5 million drams - for customs duties, 1.3 billion drams - for direct (including income tax, income tax) and 2.1 billion drams - for indirect (including VAT, excise tax), went down in the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers to 17th place from 13th a year earlier.
GNC Alfa (Rostelecom trademark), paid 1.2 billion drams to the budget in taxes, of which 2.3 million drams - for customs duties, 553.7 million - for direct (including income tax, income tax) and 621.7 million - for indirect (including VAT, excise tax), having jumped in the general list of 1000 largest taxpayers to 113th place from 167th a year earlier.
In the total volume of tax revenues of 1000 large taxpayers, the share of the four telecom operators accounted for 3.2% (versus 2.7% a year earlier).
Let us recall that in January-September 2019, the four telecom operators in total paid over 20.6 billion drams to the budget through taxes, of which 8.1 billion drams for direct taxes and 9.5 billion drams for indirect taxes. At that time, UCom was the leader among operators in terms of tax payments, followed by MTS Armenia, VEON Armenia and GNC Alfa. (The estimated exchange rate of the dram as of September 30, 2020 is 488.41 AMD / $ 1.).
