YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. In January-October 2006, the RA state budget's customs duty revenues made 14.5 bln darms, exceeding by 11.2% or 1.5 bln drams (about 3.5 mln USD) the respective index of 2005. According to the RA Ministry of Finance and Economy, in the first ten months of 2006, fixed payments from certain types of activity amounted to 12.3 bln drams, exceeding by 17.8% or about 1.9 bln darms the respective index of last year. The growth is mainly conditioned by an increase in payments for gasoline filling, transport activity and organization of public catering and trade facilities. In the period under review, the state budget's simplified tax revenues made 6.2 bln drams, growing by 12.1% or 670.8 mln drams on the same period of last year mostly due to an increase in revenues from trade. During the first ten months of this year, the budgetary revenues from other taxes made over 9.8 bln drams. Particularly, nature use and environmental protection payments amounted to 5.6 bln drams and road payments - to 2.1 bln drams. Other taxes grew by 30% or about 2.3 bln drams on the same months of last year, which was mainly due to an increase in nature use payments and fines for violation of the tax legislation.

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