ArmInfo.As of July 20, tax revenues of the Armenian state treasury amounted to 865.2 billion drams, which is 83.6% of the approved target for 9 months of 2021.
As reported by the Budget Office of the National Assembly of Armenia, as of July 20, 2021, the volume of tax revenues and state duty exceeded the same indicator of 2020 by 11.5% or 89.4 billion drams, and the figure for 2019 - by 31.9% or 209.2 billion drams. ...
During the reporting period, the volume of transitional overpayments decreased to 4.1 billion drams, against 201.5 billion drams in 2020, 136.6 billion drams in 2019 and 55 billion drams in 2018.
To recall, on July 1, acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that the forecast for the growth of Armenian GDP for 2021 is being revised upward - from 3.2%, laid down in the Law on the State Budget for 2021, to 6%. Pashinyan backed up his words with data on tax collections for the first half of the year. In particular, as the chairman of the State Revenue Committee of Armenia Edward Hovhannisyan said, for January-June 2021, the actual tax collections of the Armenian state treasury are 750.2 billion drams, instead of the planned figure of 683 billion drams. The adjusted program indicator for the reporting period, according to him, will make 697.7 billion drams. In this context, as the chief tax officer pointed out, the over-fulfillment for the first 6 months will amount to 52.5 billion drams. Acting Minister of Finance Atom Janjughazyan recalled that based on the results of tax collections for the first quarter of this year corrections were made and the figure recorded in the state budget increased from 1 trillion 440 billion drams to 1 trillion 480 billion drams, and then by 30 billion drams, to 1 trillion 510 billion drams.
