YEREVAN, July 26. /ARKA/. All 17 commercial banks operating in Armenia paid over 30.06 billion drams in various taxes in the first half of 2021, according to the list of the 1000 largest corporate taxpayers, released today by the State Revenue Committee.
The SRC said about 29.9 billion drams of that amount were collected by the tax authorities and more than 124.28 million drams by the customs officers.
According to the SRC, more than 12.2 billion drams of that amount were paid as income tax, 13.6 billion drams as personal income taxes, 1.697 billion drams as VAT and 2.5 billion drams as other taxes and duties.
The five leading banks by the size of paid taxes were Ameriabank – 5.739 billion drams (12th place in the list of 1000 largest taxpayers)), Inecobank – 3.364 billion drams (21st place), ACBA Bank – 3.017 billion AMD (25th place), Armbusinessbank – 2.494 billion drams (30th place) and Armeconombank – 2.408 billion drams (31st place).
The list of the first hundred largest taxpayers included also Ardshinbank – 1.931 billion drams (51st place), Armswissbank – 1.851 billion drams (55th place), VTB Bank (Armenia) – 1.783 billion drams (59th place), IDBank -1.537 billion drams (69th place), Araratbank – 1.144 billion drams (92nd place), Unibank – over 1.128 billion drams (94th place), HSBC Bank Armenia – almost 1.123 billion drams (96th place) and Converse Bank – 1.105 billion drams (100th place).
The Byblos Bank Armenia paid 505.352 million drams (215th place), Mellat Bank – 477.318 million drams (229th place), Evocabank – 328.973 million drams (327th place) and Artsakhbank (central branch) – 122.374 million drams (815th place).
The Central Bank of Armenia paid more that 843.48 million drams. Overall, the 1000 largest corporate taxpayers paid more than 584 440 million drams in various taxes in the first half of 2021.
The list is topped by Gazprom-Armenia, which paid 28.44 billion drams It is followed by the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine, which paid over 26.8 billion drams and the Ministry of Defense, which paid 25.4 billion drams.-0-
