Most Interest-Generating Companies Significantly Increased Budget Tax Payments: Nikol Pashinyan

Most of the companies that have occupied high positions in the list of 1000 largest taxpayers and are of public interest significantly increased the total amount of taxes paid to the state budget in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period last year.

This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his Facebook page. In particular, he noted:

“In particular, Flash company paid 2.8 billion drams or 58% more in taxes in the first half of 2019 compared to the first half of the previous year, Ucom’s tax payments exceeded 1 billion drams or 26%, Natali Pharm company by 0.7 billion drams or 37%, Spayka company by 1.4 billion drams or 117%, Sas-Group by 0.9 billion drams or 82%, Max Petrol by 2.2 billion drams or 122%, Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine by 4.9 billion drams or 20%, Gazprom Armenia by 2.1 billion drams or 10%, and Electricity Networks of Armenia by 1.3 billion drams or 20%.”

It is noteworthy that in the first half of this year, the thousand major taxpayers paid 14.3% more or 64 billion drams more to the state budget compared to the same period last year.