Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Armenian Prime Minister Says Government Expects To Increase Revenues

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Armenian Prime Minister Says Government Expects To Increase Revenues

    ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS GOVERNMENT EXPECTS TO INCREASE REVENUES NEXT YEAR BY ABOUT 100 BILLION DRAMS

    ARKA
    Sep 29, 2011

    YEREVAN, September 29. / ARKA /. Speaking at a Cabinet session today
    Armenian prime minister Tigran Sarkisian said the government expects
    its revenues to increase next year by about 100 billion drams from
    this year. The 2011 budget calls for 850 billion drams in revenues,
    of which 650 billion drams are to be collected as taxes.

    "The changes we are planning to make to the tax law will be
    implemented in two ways ~V increasing the tax base and improving
    tax administration. We assess our opportunities to improve tax
    administration at 10-15 billion drams, while taxes are likely to grow
    by around 100 billion drams," he said.

    According to Sarkisian, all the ministers were instructed to learn
    how much GDP is produced in their respective sectors, what is the
    value of new products and how much money goes to the budget.

    He, however, said that even if the changes are not implemented, the
    size of the country's budget will increase by 40-50 billion drams on
    the wave of economic growth, forecast at 4.2%.

    The prime minister said the draft budget for 2012 was discussed with
    Armenia~Rs main donors - the IMF and the WB, which along with the EU
    are expected to provide extra financial support in 2012.

    He said every year the IMF board of directors tells Armenia if it
    does not increase the rate of redistribution of financial resources
    through the budget, donors will give up additional financing, because
    Armenia has undiscovered resources.

    ~QTo put it simply , why should they have to finance the deficit of
    our budget, if Armenia has the resources that the authorities are
    obliged to use," Sarkisian said.

    He added that the increase in the ratio of tax to GDP by 0.6% per
    year is a serious challenge for Armenia, since the government did
    not assume previously such a burden.

    "That is why we have developed jointly with the IMF a tax package,
    which seeks to identify those areas that had not been previously
    taxed, so that we can reallocate more funds through the state budget",
    he said.

    The premier added that the tax package was also discussed with the
    president of Armenia, because the document has also a political
    component.

    Armenian ministry of finance sent yesterday a draft budget for 2012
    to the Cabinet~Rs consideration. It calls for 910 billion drams in
    revenues and 1.042.5 trillion drams in spending. The projected deficit
    is 132.5 billion drams, the finance ministry said in a statement
    sent to ARKA. According to the statement, the amount of revenue is
    projected to increase by 6.8% from this year~Rs budget (852.4 billion
    drams). The spending is expected to grow by 41.5 billion drams. Some
    86.1% of the spending (897.8 billion drams) is projected as current
    expenditure. ($1 - 370.38 AMD).

Working...
X