Consolidated budget revenues of the Vitebsk region in January-August amounted to over Br2.6 trillion.

September 18, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA/. The consolidated budget revenues of the Vitebsk region in January-August 2009 amounted to over Br2.6 trillion, or 103.1% of the plan, the Ministry of Taxes and Levies Inspectorate for the Vitebsk region informed a BELTA correspondent. Br77.3 billion was raised above the planned targets. Revenues to the national budget exceeded Br1.4 trillion, which is 106% of the plan, and to the local budget - more than Br1.2 trillion (99.6%, with a shortfall of Br4.4 billion). The main revenue sources for the regional budget are excise taxes, accounting for 26.8% of total revenues (Br698.3 billion raised), as well as VAT (20.1%, Br522.4 billion), personal income tax (11%, Br286 billion), and profit tax (7.7%, Br201.5 billion). This year, personal income tax revenues increased by 5.9% compared to the same period last year, and the share of this source in the budget revenue structure increased by 1.8%. The largest share of revenues comes from state enterprises and organizations, which accounted for 82.9% of the consolidated regional budget's revenue part. Enterprises in the non-state sector of the economy provided 13.6% of revenues, with the growth rate of tax revenues from residents of the FEZ "Vitebsk" reaching 116.4%, and from small businesses - 114.7% (their number increased by 1.1 thousand over 8 months to almost 7 thousand entities). The share of payments from individual entrepreneurs was 2.1% of budget revenues, and from individuals - 1.4%. As of September 1, the debt of economic entities in the Vitebsk region for budget payments amounted to Br31.2 billion, a decrease of Br1.4 billion since the beginning of the year. At the same time, 9 enterprises account for almost 53% of the total debt to the budget (Br16.5 billion, of which Br2.3 billion is current payment debt). As part of enforcement measures for debt recovery, tax authorities in the region eliminated budget arrears totaling Br89.4 billion. As a result of control measures for compliance with tax and other legislation conducted by tax inspectorates over 8 months, an additional Br38.8 billion was received by the budget, or 1.5% of the total revenue. In total, almost 460,000 taxpayers participate in forming the revenue part of the consolidated regional budget, including over 15,600 legal entities, almost 30,000 individual entrepreneurs, and more than 414,000 individuals. -0-