Tax arrears of taxpayers in the Vitebsk region decreased by more than a third in May

June 20, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. The debt to the budget of taxpayers in the Vitebsk region decreased by more than a third in May and amounted to about Br9.4 billion as of June 1. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press center of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties Inspectorate for the Vitebsk region.

About 99% of the debt is accounted for by enterprises and organizations of various forms of ownership. In order to eliminate debts, tax inspectorates have forcibly collected over Br46.1 billion, which is 2.6% of the total budget revenues for five months. Thus, Br3.5 billion was written off from current and other accounts of business entities that owe the budget, Br38.8 billion was attracted to the budget by writing off debtors' accounts receivable. Cash in the amount of Br1.4 billion was seized to pay off the debt.

In total, from January to May, revenues to the consolidated budget of the Vitebsk region exceeded Br1.8 trillion, or 108.5% of the annual plan, including payments to the republican budget amounted to over Br815 billion (108% of the plan), and local budget revenues amounted to almost Br992 billion (109%). Additional budget revenues amounted to over Br142 billion.

In the structure of revenues, the share of value added tax is 28.3%, excise taxes - 23.6%, personal income tax - 16.9%, profit tax - 7.6%. The largest share of payments is provided by legal entities of all forms of ownership, which formed 95.1% of budget revenues (including state-owned enterprises - 80.1%). The volume of tax payments by individual entrepreneurs amounted to 2.6% of budget revenues, and payments by individuals account for about 1.7% of the total revenue. In total, over 17 thousand legal entities, about 29 thousand individual entrepreneurs, and more than 417 thousand individuals participate in the formation of the budget's revenue part. -0-