Entrepreneurs of the Vitebsk region increased payments to the budget by 8% to Br32.7 billion in January-April.

June 9, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Individual entrepreneurs of the Vitebsk region increased payments to the consolidated budget of the region in comparable prices by 8% to Br32.7 billion in January-April of the current year, compared to the same period last year. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press service of the regional inspectorate of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties. In total, almost 29.5 thousand entrepreneurs operate in the region. On average, one entrepreneur pays about Br277 thousand to the budget monthly. In addition, the popularity of applying special tax regimes is growing among this category of taxpayers. Thus, more than 12.8 thousand individual entrepreneurs are payers of a single tax, and their number has increased by 8% compared to the beginning of the year. In January-April, this category of entrepreneurs paid more than Br11.7 billion to the budget, or 6.1% more than in the same period of 2009. More than 5.5 thousand individual entrepreneurs have appreciated the advantages of working under a simplified tax system. For four months, entrepreneurs paid about Br10 billion to the budget under the simplified system, which is almost double the volume of payments for the same period last year. Entrepreneurs also increased value-added tax payments by approximately 8% to Br8 billion. In January-April, tax authorities checked the activities of more than 1.2 thousand entrepreneurs (or 4.2% of the total number of individual entrepreneurs), of which about 82% were effective. Based on the results of the inspections, over Br762 million was additionally accrued to the budget. -0-