{"id":249780,"date":"2021-04-16T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2021\/04\/16\/249780\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:07:23","slug":"armenia-based-commercial-banks-paid-12-15-billion-drams-in-taxes-in-q-1-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2021\/04\/16\/249780\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia-based commercial banks paid 12.15 billion drams in taxes in Q 1, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

YEREVAN, April 16. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The list of Armenia’s 1000 largest corporate taxpayers in the first quarter of 2021 includes all 17 Armenia-based commercial banks, which paid over 12.149 billion drams in various taxes, according to the numbers, released by the State Revenue Committee (SRC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of that amount about 12.056 billion drams were collected by tax authorities and about 93 million drams by customs authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the State Revenue Office, about 3 billion were collected as tax on profits, more than 6.8 billion drams as income tax, 1.105 billion drams as VAT and 1.248 billion drams as other taxes and duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The five top banks by size of paid taxes were Acba bank – almost 1.738 billion drams (17th place in the list of 1000 largest taxpayers), Ameriabank – 1.46 billion drams (20th), Armbusinessbank – 1.276 billion drams (24th place), Ardshinbank – 1.029 billion drams (39th place) and Armeconombank – 982.4 million drams (45th place).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of first hundred largest taxpayers includes also Inecobank – 869.6 million drams (50th place), VTB Bank (Armenia) – 791.7 million drams (58th place), Araratbank – 776.6 million drams (60th place), Converse Bank – 719.5 million drams (66th place), Unibank – more than 605.9 million drams (83rd place), HSBC Bank Armenia – almost 575 million drams (91st place), ArmSwissBank – 543.4 million drams (95th place).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IDBank paid 361.9 million drams (137th place), Byblos Bank Armenia – 159.35 million drams (296th place), Evocabank – 131.9 million drams (352nd place), Mellat Bank – 71.6 million drams (642nd place), Artsakhbank (central branch) – 51.7 million drams (820th place). The Central Bank of Armenia paid 473.8 million drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State Revenue Committee said it used a new methodology for calculating taxes in accordance with the decision of the Government of Armenia dated December 24, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general, the 1000 largest taxpayers paid  more than 260.17 billion drams in various taxes in the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list is topped by Gazprom-Armenia, which paid 18.7 billion drams. The second is the Ministry of Defense – 15.05 billion drams, followed by the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine with 9.77 billion drams of paid n taxes. ($1 – 521.2 drams). –0–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The list of Armenia’s 1000 largest corporate taxpayers in the first quarter of 2021 includes all 17 Armenia-based commercial banks, which paid over 12.149 billion drams in various taxes, according to the numbers, released by the State Revenue Committee (SRC)<\/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":[15837,12790,12306,511],"class_list":{"0":"post-249780","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-commercial-banks","11":"tag-taxes","12":"tag-511"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249780","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=249780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249780\/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=249780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}