ArmInfo.As of August 31, 2021, tax revenues (tax revenues and state duties) of the state treasury of Armenia amounted to 983.9 billion drams, or 95.1% of the planned indicator fixed in the law "On the state budget of the RA for 2021" for 9 months. The Budget Office of the RA National Assembly informs about it, referring to the operational data.
It should be noted that according to the approved state budget for 2021, state treasury revenues will amount to 1 trillion 509 billion 462 million 935 thousand drams. Tax revenues (tax collections and state duties) in the document are fixed at 1 trillion 440 billion 136 million 839.5 thousand drams.
Meanwhile, at the beginning of July this year acting Minister of Finance Atom Janjughazyan said that based on the results of tax collections for the first quarter of 2021, adjustments were made and the indicator recorded in the state budget from 1 trillion 440 billion drams increased to 1 trillion 480 billion drams, and then by 30 billion drams, to 1 trillion 510 billion drams. Thus, the data announced by the Budget Office of the National Assembly that the tax revenues collected over 8 months make up 95.1% of the planned indicator for 9 months relate to the original goal fixed in the state budget in December 2020. According to the source, revenues collected by September 1 of this year exceeded the indicator for the same period of 2020 by 10.9% or 96.4 billion drams, by 46.5 billion drams or 5% compared to 2019 and by 211.3 billion drams or 27.3% compared to the same period in 2018. Over the reporting period, transitional overpayments amounted to 4.1 billion drams, against 235.2 million drams in 2020, 136.6 billion drams in 2019 and 55 billion drams in 2018.
