Budget revenue over-performed by 22,3 billion drams in Q1, says Pashinyan

12:04, 1 April, 2021

YEREVAN, APRIL 1, ARMENPRESS. According to Q1 data of 2021 the budget revenue was over-performed by 22.3 billion drams, and trade turnover recorded significant growth as well, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the Cabinet meeting.

He said trade turnover grew more than 8%.

“Proceeding from results of the first quarter the finance ministry is recommending that we increase the budget’s yearly revenue projection by 40 billion drams. These are rather good indicators for a crisis, post-war year,” he said.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

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