YEREVAN, November 6. /ARKA/. All the commercial banks in Armenia, 21, were listed among the republic’s 1000 major taxpayers over the past three quarters 2012, according to the State Revenue Committee.

The banks are said to pour nearly 20.8 billion drams into the state budget.

Within January-September 2011, the 21 banks of Armenia allocated nearly 17.9 billion drams in taxes.

Armenia’s State Revenue Committee says tax authorities collected over 20.6 billion drams, whereas, the customs - nearly 171.8 million drams from the banks.

The taxes collected from the banks made up 5.3% of the total tax volume levied from the 1000 taxpayers.

Top five banks taxpayers are ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK ( over 3.02 billion drams-20th place), HSBC Bank Armenia ( nearly 2.25 billion drams- 27th place), Ameriabank (about 2.16 billion drams-30th place), VTB Bank (Armenia) ( over 1.71 billion drams-40th place), and Armbusinessbank ( nearly 1.42 billion drams-48th place).

Top 100 banks taxpayers are Ardshininvestbank (over 1.24 billion drams- 53rd place), Unibank (nearly 1.11 billion drams-60th place), Araratbank (over 1.09 billion drams-63rd place), Inecobank (over 997.5 million drams- 67th place), Mellat Bank (nearly 888.8 million drams-77th place), Areximbank-Gazprombank Group (nearly 869.5 million drams-79th place), Armeconombank (about 669.3 million drams-98th place), Converse bank (around 666.6 million drams-100th place).

In general, the 1000 major taxpayers injected over 394.9 billion drams in January-September 2012 versus 352.8 billion drams in the analogical period a year earlier. ($1 – 406.57 drams).—0-