YEREVAN. – For 2019, the amount of state budget revenues was set at 1 trillion 496 billion drams. Later that year, this number was revised and changed to 1 trillion 609 billion drams. Minister of Finance Atom Janjughazyan stated this during Monday’s debates on the 2019 state budget performance report, at the joint sitting of the standing committees of the National Assembly of Armenia.

At the same time, according to him, the state budget was actually performed in the amount of 1 trillion 565 billion drams. "As expected, the main component of budget revenues was tax revenues: 93.5 percent," Janjughazyan said.

As per the minister, 1 trillion 402 billion drams were envisaged for the implementation of various measures, but due to the positive trends of the Armenian economy, this indicator was revised and changed to 1 trillion 488 billion drams. "The actual volume of tax revenues amounted to 1 trillion 464 billion drams," the head of the Ministry of Finance stressed.

According to Atom Janjughazyan, in 2019, owing to the tax revenues’ inflow into the state budget, it became possible to include 62 billion drams more than originally planned.