Armenia

Ease of Doing Business in

Armenia

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Armenia. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 185 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy's distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

Economy Overview

Region Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Income Category Lower middle income
Population 3,100,236
GNI Per Capita (US$) 3,360
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
32 50 down 18

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
70.6 66.6 down 4.0
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 11 10 up -1
Dealing with Construction Permits 46 49 up 3
Getting Electricity 101 143 up 42
Registering Property 4 4 No change
Getting Credit 40 38 up -2
Protecting Investors 25 98 up 73
Paying Taxes 108 152 up 44
Trading Across Borders 107 106 up -1
Enforcing Contracts 91 91 No change
Resolving Insolvency 63 63 No change

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Paying Taxes

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This data shows the tax that a medium-size company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes. These measures include the number of payments an entrepreneur must make; the number of hours spent preparing, filing, and paying; and the percentage of their profits they must pay in taxes.

DB 2013 Rank 108 DB 2012 Rank 152 Change in Rank up44
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 69.9 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 53.1 Improvement in DTF** (% points) up16.8
Indicator Armenia Eastern Europe & Central Asia OECD

The total number of tax payments per year. The indicator reflects the total number of taxes and contributions paid, the method of payment, the frequency of payment and the number of agencies involved for a standardized case during the second year of operation.

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Payments (number per year)
13 28 12

The time it takes to prepare, file and pay (or withhold) the corporate income tax, the value added tax and social security contributions (in hours per year).

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Time (hours per year)
380 260 176

The amount of taxes on profits paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits.

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Profit tax (%)
15.0 9.1 15.2

The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions on labor paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profits.

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Labor tax and contributions (%)
23.0 22.1 23.8

The amount of taxes and mandatory contributions paid by the business as a percentage of commercial profit that are not already included in the categories of profit or labor taxes.

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Other taxes (%)
0.9 9.3 3.7

The total tax rate measures the amount of taxes and mandatory contributions payable by the business in the second year of operation, expressed as a share of commercial profits.

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Total tax rate (% profit)
38.8 40.5 42.7
Tax or mandatory contribution Payments (number) Notes on Payments Time (hours) Statutory tax rate Tax base Total tax rate (% profit) Notes on TTR
Social security contributions 1 online filing 162 (i) AMD 7,000 for first AMD 20,000 of monthly salary; (ii) AMD 7,000 plus 15% of the monthly salary exceeding AMD 20,000; (iii) AMD 19,000 plus 5% of the monthly salary exceeding AMD 100,000 gross salaries 23
Corporate income tax 1 online filing 121 20% taxable profit 15
Land Tax 3 1% cadastral value 0.5
Property tax on Building 3 0% cadastral value 0.3
Vehicle tax 3 varies depends on horsepower 0
Value added tax (VAT) 1 online filing 97 20% value added, land sale 0 not included
Environmental pollution charge for vehicles 1 AMD 50 per horsepower engine of the vehicle (in horsepower) 0
Totals: 13 380 38.8

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

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