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RESPONSE TO COVID-19
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SUPPORT MEASURES
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Supporting liquidity provision to businesses
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Loans to SMEs in certain affected sectors, to finance employee-related expenses, tax, duties
and mandatory payments, purchase of raw materials or equipment, utility services payments
Interest rate subsidies for agricultural loans/lease and co-financing
Interest rate subsidies for loans that finance employee-related expenses, tax, duties and
mandatory payments, purchase of raw materials or equipment, utility services payments,
food
■ Eligible loans (up to AMD 500 million)
Eligible co-financing/refinancing (up to AMD 250 million)
■ Maturity: 2 years with a 1 year grace
Lump sum financing aimed at preserving jobs for businesses with 2-50 employees
(approximately one-fifth of total employee's wages)
• Direct social assistance transfers to the vulnerable
Lump-sum transfers to the vulnerable, including:
Families with children under 14 and children under 18: AMD 100,000 and AMD 26,500
per child, respectively
■ Micro-enterprises: 10% of the turnover in the first 3 months of 2020 or up to AMD 136,000
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or AMD 68,000 if not activating cash-register machine with State Revenue Committee
IT businesses: (1) grants for innovation - up to AMD 10 million per project, (2) grants for
sustainable companies - up to AMD 20 million per project, (3) 100% co-financing grants
not exceeding AMD 30 million
Individuals made redundant due to Covid-19: AMD 68,000
Pregnant women who faced difficulties due to Covid-19: AMD 100,000
Tuition subsidies and subsidizing student loans
Subsidies for utility services (gas and electricity)
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Investments to support post crisis recovery
From USD 0.5 million to USD 4.0 million of equity per project in
sectors of strategic importance (via Entrepreneur + State Anti-Crisis
Investments Fund)
Corporate Income Tax Reform
Government has implemented a deferral in corporate income tax
advance payment for the second quarter of 2020 and, also allowed the
CIT payers to choose an alternative method of calculating the tax
advance payment, based on the turnover over the previous quarter.
Fiscal Response to COVID-19 Crisis, AMD bln
Measures in 2020
2.7% of GDP in total
70.0
19.4
13.0
26.0
36.4
Measures in Jan-Aug 2021
0.3% of GDP* in total
13.1
■ Economic measures
■Social measures
■ Health-care measures
■Lending operations (Below the line measures)
■CIT Reform
* Calculated using projected GDP of 2021, based on 2022 Budget Draft Forecasts
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