The majority of the companies that are at the top echelons of the list of the 1,000 largest taxpayers in Armenia—and are of particular public interest—have considerably increased the overall amount of taxes paid to the state budget in the first half 2019, as compared to the same period last year. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted about this in a Facebook post.

“The one-thousand large taxpaying companies have paid to the state budget an amount 14.3-percent more, or 64 billion drams more, in the first half of the year, as compared to the same period last year,” Pashinyan added, in particular.