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28 Investment guide Armenia Tax Privileges for IT Companies Tax Privileges for Exporters Starting from 09.01.2015 Law "On State support" entered into force and according to law, startup companies can apply for privileges, particularly, the companies, and Individual entrepreneurs, falling under the criteria of the Law, do not pay corporate tax/profit tax on income related to IT activity, also the income tax on these entities' employees salary is calculated at 10% rate. The privilege is effective only for the period of certificate provided by RA Government. Tax privileges are applicable to companies for which the following criteria are met: were created to implement only activities provided by the law (in IT sector), were not created as a result of reorganization of other entity, are not a subsidiary of another company, number of employees does not exceed 30. Profit tax privileges Favorable profit tax rates are applied to the taxable profit of resident taxpayers or group of involved in export programs approved by Armenian Government. However to benefit from favorable rate the taxpayers should meet to certain conditions simultaneously: - The taxpayers should not be involved in mining or processing of metallic minerals, processing and/or selling of precious stones, precious metals and jewelry, producing or selling products taxable by excise tax. minimum 40 billion AMD has been entered into bank accounts of taxpayers in the group from export program the taxpayers of the group does not have any income from sale of products, rendering of services in Armenia, except for interest income received from non- residents on loans provided. the sum of taxpayers revenue from provision of services abroad and custom value of exported goods for current year exceeds 40 billion AMD. Moreover the exports custom value for current year should exceed the threshold established by RA Government, If all above conditions are met: 5% favorable rate applies to the taxable profit, if the sum of taxpayers revenue from provision of services abroad and custom value of exported goods for current year exceeds 40 billion AMD. 2% favorable rate applies to the taxable profit, if the sum of taxpayers revenue from provision of services abroad and custom value of exported goods for current year exceeds 50 billion AMD. 5% favorable rate is applied to the taxable profit of taxpayers or group of taxpayers involved in programs approved by Armenian Government, if taxpayers or group of taxpayers operate in the field of construction or installation exclusively outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia. Income tax privileges The tax agents, who signed a working agreement with residents of RA and according to the agreement employee worked exclusively outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia, within implementation of the program according to Article 33 part 1.2 of RA Law on "Profit Tax" calculates income tax from employees' wages and equal payments by the 13% rate. KPMG © 2016 KPMG Armenia cjsc,. All rights reserved.
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