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Today the RA Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan presented the Ministry’s tax report at the session of the RA Government based on the assignment of the Prime Minister of Armenia to three Ministries to present tax reports.

According to the report on the sector of education 2343 educational institutions function in the sector of RA education 1514 of which are state institutions, 640 - community, 170 – non-governmental, 19 – other. 1486 of the mentioned organizations are licensed.

The share of education in the GDP according to current prices by the first semester of 2012 makes 32, 657 billion AMD in comparison with the 30, 289 AMD of the same period last year. The semester increase already made 7, 8 %.

The average number of the staff working in the education sector in January-August 2012 made 91004.3 people having increased by 1453 people in comparison with 2011.

The image by the type of property is the following: 76380 people works in the public sector in comparison with 74849.9 people in the same period of time in 2011, 11779 people in community sector in comparison with 11210 people in the same period of time in 2011, 2843.8 in the non-governmental sector in comparison with 3490 of last year.

The average monthly salary of the employees in January-August 2012 made 80884 AMD having increased by 3, 1 % from last year.

The scope of paid services in the sector of education within 8 months of 2012 decreased in comparison with the same period of time in 2011, which is mainly connected with decrease of the number of students in the higher education institutions with paid education, conditioned with the absence of graduates in 2011-2012 academic year, and the main part of the revenue is formed by the fees of educational institutions. However already in August 2012 an increase of 4, 6 % was recorded as to the paid services. Only in state universities the number of students paying fees made 12 thousand in 2012-2013 in comparison with 6, 5 thousand last year. A drastic increase in paid services is expected by the end of the year.

The amount of means directed to providing salaries within 8 months of 2012 made 58862 million AMD in comparison with the 56225 in the same period of time last year. The increase made 2660.7 million AMD or 4, 7 %. As a result supplementary 480 million AMD was directed to the RA state budget for social insurance.

12 higher education institutions are considered large-sized tax payers, particularly regarding mandatory social insurance payments and are among first 100 tax payers of the RA.

If in the first semester of 2011 the above-mentioned higher education institutions paid 1709,0 million AMD for mandatory social insurance, then in the first semester of 2012 they paid 1965,4 million AMD.