"Fact" daily writes:
Yesterday, the SRC published the 2024 Information on taxes and fees paid by the first 1,000 large taxpayers during January-September. in 2024 during the months of January and September more than 1 trillion 323 billion 205 million AMD were paid to the state budget. As for the leaders, there are no surprises in the first position. Zangezur copper-molybdenum combine has a "permanent" here, which has paid about 83.7 billion drams in taxes to the state budget for nine months. By the way, this indicator is about 31.3 billion drams or about 37 percent more than the taxes paid in the same period last year. Moreover, ZPMK has already surpassed the entire 2023 in nine months. the annual index of taxes paid by him (70.8 billion drams). Let's add that ZPMK paid about 34 billion drams more tax than the company in the second place for three quarters. And in the second position is "Mobile Center", which has advanced by 2 positions compared to the same period last year. This organization in 2024 according to the data of the first semester, it was also the second. Instead, in 2023 "Gazprom Armenia" "fell back" by 2 positions compared to January-September, and by 1 position compared to January-June of this year, which is the 4th in the nine months of this year. In 3rd place is Grand Tobacco and in fifth place is Pretty-Way (Vesta). It is noteworthy that two organizations in the top five are involved in the import and sale of telephones and other equipment. Since we mentioned "Gazprom Armenia", let's also mention other "utility" services. In particular, compared to the same period of the previous year, Armenia's electrical networks have advanced by 4 positions and are in 18th place in terms of taxes paid. "Veolia water" is in almost the same positions (+-1) both in the nine months of last year and in the first half of this year: 33-35th positions. Let us add that most of the Armenian banks are in the top fifty. But we will look at banks, manufacturers and other sectors separately.
