{"id":107988,"date":"2017-06-01T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/06\/01\/246376\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:29:39","slug":"armenian-state-budget-revenue-in-four-months-grew-by-8-8-percent-spending-dropped-by-4-1-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/06\/01\/107988\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian state budget revenue in four months grew by 8.8 percent, spending dropped by 4.1 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, June 1. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> Armenia\u2019s state budget revenues collected in the first 4 months of 2017 were by 8.8% more than the amount collected in the same time span of last year, growing to over 383.2 billion drams, the National Statistical Service (NSS) said today.<\/p>\n<p>According to NSS figures, more than 363 billion drams were collected as taxes and dues, an increase of 10.6% from the year before. Also 128.9 billion drams were collected as VAT, a growth of 10.5%, 19.5 billion drams were collected as excise taxes (a growth of 18.3%), 48.8 billion drams were collected as profit taxes (a growth of 6.5%), 18.4 billion drams as customs dues (a growth of 14.8%) and 102.8 billion drams as income taxes (a growth of 4.1%).<\/p>\n<p>The state budget also received 16.7 billion drams as \u2018other revenue, a growth of 10.9%. The government also received over 3.3 billion drams as official grants.<\/p>\n<p>According to NSS, the budget spending declined by 3.6% to 375.5 billion drams. Of that amount 35% or 133.6 billion were paid as social security benefits and pensions, 50.4 billion drams were released as grants (a growth of 2.2%), 39.6 3 billion drams were paid as salaries (a growth of 2.7%), 35.3 billion drams were used to purchase goods and services (a decline of 17.1%), 31.8 billion drams were paid as interests (a drop of 17.9%), 30.1 billion drams as subsidies (a decline of 13.4%) and 54.4 billion drams as other expenses (a drop of 3.4%).<\/p>\n<p>Non-financial asset transactions amounted to about 19.1 billion drams. As a result the budget deficit fell to 11.4 7 billion drams against 59.3 billion drams in the same period of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The state budget for 2017 calls for 1 trillion 210 billion drams in revenue and 1 trillion 360 billion drams in spending. The projected deficit is 150 billion drams or 2.8% of GDP. ($ 1 &#8211; 482 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s state budget revenues collected in the first 4 months of 2017 were by 8.8% more than the amount collected in the same time span of last year, growing to over 383.2 billion drams, the National Statistical Service (NSS) said today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,14475,13591,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-107988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-budget-revenue","11":"tag-nss","12":"tag-323"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107988","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=107988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}