{"id":105392,"date":"2017-02-01T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/02\/01\/245848\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:27:43","slug":"armenian-banks-paid-34-4-billion-drams-in-taxes-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/02\/01\/105392\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian banks paid 34.4 billion drams in taxes in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 1. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> All 17 Armenia-based commercial banks were among the 1000 largest corporate taxpayers in 2016 having paid about 34.4 billion drams in various taxes, the State Revenue Committee said today.<\/p>\n<p>The amount was down from 41.2 billion drams the banks paid in taxes in 2015.<br \/>\nAccording to official data, some 34.3 billion drams were collected by tax authorities and about 74.5 million drams by the customs authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 34.4 billion drams some 30.3 billion drams were collected as direct taxes (income tax and personal income tax); indirect taxes, including excise taxes, stood at about 2.14 billion drams. Also 1.93 billion drams were paid as other taxes, duties and obligatory payments.<\/p>\n<p>The top five banks by size of paid taxes were Ameriabank &#8211; 4.03 billion drams (25th place in the list of 1000 largest corporate taxpayers), VTB Bank (Armenia) -. about 3.42 billion drams (29th place), ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK -. 3.36 billion drams, (31st place), Ardshinbank &#8211; 3.07 billion drams (39th place) and Inecobank &#8211; 2.79 billion drams (43rd place).<\/p>\n<p>The list of the 100 largest taxpayers included also Armbusinessbank &#8211; 2.71 billion drams, Unibank &#8211; 2.61 billion drams, HSBC Bank Armenia -. 1.79 billion drams, Conversebank &#8211; 1.63 billion drams, Anelik Bank- 1.54 billion drams and Armeconombank -. 1.51 billion drams.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the 1000 largest corporate taxpayers paid more than 716.9 billion drams in various taxes in 2016, an increase of 2.8% from 2015. ($ 1 &#8211; 486.5 drams). &#8211; 0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 17 Armenia-based commercial banks were among the 1000 largest corporate taxpayers in 2016 having paid about 34.4 billion drams in various taxes, the State Revenue Committee said today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12163,12306,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-105392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-banks","11":"tag-taxes","12":"tag-319"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}