Tax revenues to the budget of the Vitebsk region from small businesses increased by 10%

October 27, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotov - BELTA /. Small businesses in the Vitebsk region paid almost Br232 billion to the consolidated budget of the region in January-September this year, which is 10% higher than the data in comparable prices for the same period last year. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the inspectorate of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties for the Vitebsk region. In total, more than 7.1 thousand small businesses operate in the region, their number has increased by 21% compared to the data for 9 months of last year. A positive trend this year is also the active application of the simplified taxation system by economic entities. As of October 1, almost 8 thousand legal entities and individual entrepreneurs operate under this system. Tax revenues to the budget from this category of taxpayers in January-September amounted to Br33.2 billion and increased 2.2 times compared to the same period last year. In addition, the number of individuals engaged in craft activities in the region has increased more than 1.5 times (to 568). For 9 months, they paid Br15.5 million to the budget. Citizens are also actively legalizing activities related to renting out housing. In total, almost 6.3 thousand residents of the region are engaged in such activities, their number has increased by more than a third compared to the data for 9 months of last year, and tax revenues from this category of taxpayers have increased 1.5 times and amounted to Br737 million. In total, the revenues of the consolidated budget of the Vitebsk region for 9 months of 2009 amounted to over Br2.9 trillion, or 101.9% of the plan, with Br55.4 billion attracted to the budget above the plan. The republican budget received almost Br1.7 trillion, which is 104.1% of the plan, and the local budget - about Br1.3 trillion (99.2%). The main revenue sources of the regional budget are excise taxes - their share in the total volume of receipts was 28.3% (Br838.3 billion received), as well as VAT (20.3%, Br600.9 billion), personal income tax (10.9%, Br321.5 billion) and profit tax (7.7%, Br227.4 billion). In the structure of revenues, the largest share of receipts comes from taxpayers in Novopolotsk - they formed 48.6% of the revenue part of the regional budget, as well as Vitebsk (31.1%) and Orsha (3.9%). As of October 1, the debt of economic entities in the region for payments to the budget amounted to Br26.5 billion and decreased by Br6.1 billion compared to the beginning of the year. Almost a third of the total debt falls on taxpayers in the Dokshitsky (Br3.6 billion) and Braslavsky (Br3.3 billion) districts. Economic entities in the Verkhnedvinsky district and Novopolotsk have no debt to the budget. In total, over 460 thousand taxpayers, including more than 15 thousand legal entities and almost 30 thousand individual entrepreneurs, participate in the formation of the revenue part of the consolidated budget of the region. -0-