Azerbaijan reduces balance of payments surplus by more than 35 times
Total surplus of Azerbaijan's balance of payments amounted to $181.6 million in January-September 2024.This was reported by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan.
According to the data, this is down by 35.2 times from the same period of 2023.
Note that the total surplus was formed at the expense of surplus of the country's current account balance in the amount of $ 3,952.9 million, deficit on the financial account in the amount of $ 3,570.5 million and deficit on balance sheet items in the amount of $ 200.8 million.
Finance
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In December 2024, the State Customs Committee (SCC) transferred 646.45 million manat to the state budget, the SCC’s website. According to the data, this is a 4.4% increase compared to the same period in 2023. In particular, last year, customs duty revenues increased by 20.2% to 158.2 million manat, while VAT (Value Added Tax) revenues decreased by 0.45% to 463.5 million manat. Excise tax revenues increased by 6.2% to 19.55 million manat, and road tax revenues increased by 45.9%, amounting to 5.2 million manat.
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An auction for the placement of interest-bearing, unsecured, undocumented, registered bonds of the non-bank credit organization (NBCO) Embafinans with the code AZ2013020600 ISIN, worth 2 million manat for a one-year term, was held at the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE), the BSE reported.
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Zarifa Hamzaeva, the owner of 84.5% of Premiumbank's shares, has passed away, the Bank reported. She was also the wife of Jahangir Askerov, the founder and president of Gazelly Group, the leading cosmetics manufacturer in the country, and the former head of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) (dismissed in September 2023).
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In 2024, nominal income of Azerbaijan's population totalled AZN 83,093.4 million.
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