"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"The drafts of the state budget of Armenia are so undermined that every year the deficit increases, the revenues are not sufficient, and the aggressive taxation tactics chosen by the government to increase revenues are among the worst in economics.
"Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper learned from official sources that the 2025 budget project plans a 5.5% increase in budget revenues compared to the approved 2024 budget, while according to the budget message of that project, a 4.8% underachievement of budget revenues was expected in 2024. .
In relation to the approved budget of 2024, 2025 the planned growth of tax revenues and state duties is 5.6%, while the message expects that they will be underachieved by 6.0% compared to 2024.
The NA budget office published the operational performance of the 2024 budget. accordingly, in 2024, 2.34 trillion drams of tax revenue and state duties were collected, which is 222.7 billion drams less than was initially approved by the law and 224 billion drams less than the specified plan.
Against this background, the approved plan of tax revenues and state duty in the 2025 budget is 2.72 trillion drams, which is 16.2% more than this year's actual figure.
State budget tax revenues and state duties in December 2024 amounted to 2 trillion 390.9 billion drams, or the annual adjusted figure - 91.4%.
This number exceeded the 2023 index by 7.6% or 169 billion drams, and compared to 2022 by 24.1% or 465 billion drams.
Experts do not consider the 2025 budget plan to be realistic, because the predictions seem as impossible as the discovery of the infinity of space.
