Expenditures of social protection sector will comprise AMD 408 billion 985.5 million in 2017, which, as compared to ongoing year, is more by AMD 3 billion 822.6 million. Atom Janjughazyan, First Deputy Minister of Finance, said during the Parliamentary debates of the 2017 state budget.
H.Bagratyan stated that NSS president mentioned a wrong figure of Euronest, as participation of SMEs in GDP comprises 27%, and Mnatsakanyan stated 58.7% in his letter. “His issue is with European institutions, every time they bring people from those international institutions, treat with kebab, and in the end they receive the amount they want to, you see.”
The State Revenue Committee of Armenia has released the list of 1000 major taxpayers of Armenia according to the results of JanuarySeptember, 2016, as well as the volume of the taxes paid by them. “Gazprom Armenia” continues to top the list of major taxpayers of Armenia which paid taxes amounting to 28 billion 830 million 848 thousand AMD during the mentioned period.
“Expectations are natural to lay ground for supplying gas to transit Georgia to Armenia and through Armenia, regarding both gas against electricity and direct gas supply to Armenia. If that program succeeds, it’ll mean acquisition of historical importance for our region, which will split Armenia’s energy-transportation blockade.”
We call on all Armenians to engage in pioneering and long-term investment to restore the social, economic, cultural and technological strengths of the nation, with Armenia at its core.
As mentioned in the report, advancement by 5 ranks has mainly been recorded on account of recalculation, conditioned by change of methodologies and adding by one economy—Somalia. Besides technical reasons, Armenia has also facilitated doing business in the two fields mentioned in the report—loan allocation and contract enforcement.
Belgian “Brussels Airlines” will start Yerevan-Brussels flights from March 31, 2017. At the starting period one flight will be conducted weekly, but after JulyAugust the second flight will be complemented. The airline company has announced that Armenian passengers will be able to fly not only to Brussels, but also other European cities.
Out of objective reasons we’ll record underfulfillment regarding tax collections. RA Finance Minister Vardan Aramyan told reporters today, stating that this year GDP will be less by AMD 300 billion, i.e. about 60 billion underfulfillment will be recorded.
Stressing Armenia-Belarus cooperation expansion possibilities, the Minister stated that USD 35 million trade turnover doesn’t reflect real potential of two EAEU member states: there are all preconditions to develop mutual commodities turnover through EAEU mechanisms.
“It’s symbolic, that the events week was launched with the meeting, devoted to business development. SMEs provide the majority of employees, thus, economic opportunities provided by SMEs should also be highlighted.”
