Business entities established in 2009 in the Vitebsk region paid about Br15.7 billion to the budget.

January 20, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Economic entities established in the Vitebsk region in 2009 paid about Br15.7 billion in taxes and fees to the budget last year, the press service of the Vitebsk Regional Tax Inspectorate informed BELTA. Last year, almost 5.7 thousand enterprises, organizations, and individual entrepreneurs registered their activities. A total of almost Br4.1 trillion in revenues was received into the consolidated budget of the region, or 101.4% of the annual planned assignments, including payments to the republican budget amounting to about Br2.3 trillion (102.5% of the plan), and to the local budget - more than Br1.8 trillion (100%). Additionally, about Br56.7 billion in revenues was attracted to the consolidated budget of the region last year. Unprofitable economic entities remain one of the pressing problems in the region, the press service noted. As of January 1, 785 enterprises and organizations, or about 5% of the registered ones, operated at a loss. Although the number of loss-making entities decreased by 18.4%, the amount of incurred losses more than doubled to almost Br253 billion. At the beginning of the year, the debt of economic entities in the Vitebsk region for budget payments amounted to Br20.4 billion and decreased by Br12.3 billion over the past year. Through enforcement measures for tax obligations, the region's tax inspectorates eliminated budget arrears totaling Br232 billion. As a result of control measures to ensure compliance with tax and other legislation, carried out by tax authorities last year, an additional Br56.2 billion was received into the budget, or 1.4% of the total revenue. A total of over 466 thousand taxpayers participate in the formation of the revenue part of the consolidated budget of the region, including over 16 thousand legal entities (who generated 96.4% of the consolidated budget revenues), about 28.8 thousand individual entrepreneurs (2.1%), and over 421 thousand individuals (1.5%). -0-