{"id":114888,"date":"2018-07-03T14:59:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2018\/07\/03\/247622\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:34:15","slug":"taxes-paid-by-smes-dropped-by-2-3-percent-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2018\/07\/03\/114888\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes paid by SMEs dropped by 2.3 percent in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, July 3. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The amount of taxes paid in 2017 by Armenia\u2019s SMEs decreased by 2.3% from the previous year to 209.4 million drams, according to a report by the Business Support Office.<br \/>\nAccording to the report, the share of SME in all taxes paid in 2017 decreased to 16.7% from 29.8% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state register, in 2017 there were 180,000 registered taxpayers in Armenia, of which only 59.2% or 106,596 were active tax payers. Their number increased by 5, 593 as compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This difference between the registered taxpayers and the active ones lies in the complicated process of bankruptcy, which causes companies to freeze their activities, rather then shut down. As a result, the number of inactive taxpayers grows,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, 77% of the active taxpayers (82,209) were SMEs, of which 76,615 were micro-businesses, 4,570 were small businesses and 1,024 were medium-sized businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The turnover of the SME over the past three years averaged a third of the country&#8217;s GDP. In 2017 it was 1.920.3 trillion drams (an increase of 14.2%) or 34.4% of GDP. Simultaneously, the share of microbusiness in GDP was 11.1% (619 billion drams), small business &#8211; 11.7% (655 billion drams) and that of medium businesses &#8211; 11.6% (644 billion drams). ($ 1 &#8211; 482.49 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of taxes paid in 2017 by Armenia\u2019s SMEs decreased by 2.3% from the previous year to 209.4 million drams, according to a report by the Business Support Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12209,12344,15427,12306,12688],"class_list":{"0":"post-114888","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-business","11":"tag-gdp","12":"tag-sme-2","13":"tag-taxes","14":"tag-armenia-analyst-inflation"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114888","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=114888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}