Taxpayers from small and medium-sized cities generated 10% of the Vitebsk region's budget revenues in January-April

May 28, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Business entities in small and medium-sized urban settlements of the Vitebsk region paid taxes totaling over Br110.2 billion in January-April, which accounts for about 10% of the consolidated budget revenues of the region. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press service of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties Inspectorate for the Vitebsk region. As of May 1, over 10,000 business entities, including almost 4,000 enterprises, operate in small and medium-sized cities. Since the beginning of the year, their number has increased by 1.8%, including a 2% increase in legal entities. One-third of the total number of organizations operating in small and medium-sized urban settlements are concentrated in Gluboksky (345 enterprises, or 8.7% of their total number), Lepelsky (313, or 7.9%), Chashniksky (313, or 7.9%), and Postavsky (310, or 7.8%) districts. Almost half (2.8 thousand, or 47.5%) of the total number of individual entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized cities work in Postavsky, Lepelsky, Gluboksky, and Chashniksky districts. Over 1.3 thousand enterprises and more than a thousand individual entrepreneurs operate in the agro-towns of the region. For 4 months, they paid about Br19 billion in taxes and fees to the budget. The largest number of taxpayers operate in the agro-towns of Vitebsky (580, or 25% of the total number of such business entities), Orshansky (164, or 7.1%), and Postavsky (160, or 6.9%) districts. Preferential tax regimes established to create favorable business conditions in rural areas allowed business entities in small and medium-sized cities of the region to retain over Br1.4 billion in the first quarter. -0-