Payments to the budget from small businesses in the Vitebsk region increased by a quarter in the first quarter

May 5, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Small businesses in the Vitebsk region paid over Br102.5 billion in taxes and duties to the budget in January-March 2010, which is 25% higher than the figure for the first quarter of last year. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press center of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties Inspectorate for the Vitebsk region. In total, over 36.7 thousand small businesses are registered in the region, including over 7.3 thousand legal entities and almost 29.4 thousand individual entrepreneurs. Their total number increased by almost 2% compared to the data for the first quarter of last year. In terms of payments from this category of taxpayers, small enterprises and organizations provided revenues of over Br80.4 billion, while their number increased by 17% compared to the same period last year, and the volume of revenues increased by a third. Individual entrepreneurs paid about Br22 billion in taxes and duties, which is 5.6% more than in the first quarter of 2009. The number of individual entrepreneurs decreased by almost 2%. According to data as of April 1, on average, one small enterprise paid about Br3.6 million in tax payments monthly, and one entrepreneur paid Br260 thousand per month. -0-