OREANDA-NEWS. November 21, 2007. During January-October 2007 up to 2, 594 requests for excise marks have been submitted to the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, the Ministry's press service reports. On a basis of these requests there were given out 355, 798, 892 excise marks. The mobilized sum in the budget amounts to 155, 143, 982.46 GEL. (In 2006, in the same period the mobilized sum amounted to 109, 786, 548.82).
 
During January-October 2007, up to 2, 594 requests for excise marks have been submitted to the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance. On a basis of these requests, there were given out 355, 798, 892 excise marks. The mobilized sum in the budget amounts to 155, 143, 982.46 GEL. (In 2006, in the same period the mobilized sum amounted to 109, 786, 548.82).

 
During the ten months of 2007, were met:

- 373 requests for excise marks for local tobacco. 207, 721, 972 excise marks have been given out and the total sum mobilized in the budget amounts to 71, 738, 666.90 GEL (the same period of previous year: 50 652 333.15);

- 147 requests for excise marks for imported tobacco.  93, 100, 038 excise marks have been given out and the total sum mobilized in the budget amounts to 56, 384, 050.50 GEL (the same period of previous year: 35 531 046.50 GEL);

- 1170 requests for excise marks for local alcohol drinks.  15, 663, 318  excise marks have been given out and the total sum mobilized in the budget amounts to 10, 054, 927.19 GEL (the same period of previous year: 9 101 156.40 GEL);

- 244 requests for excise marks for imported alcohol drinks. 3, 430, 898 excise marks have been given out and the total sum mobilized in the budget amounts to 3, 087, 586.62 GEL (the same period of previous year: 1, 491, 263.72 GEL);

- 363 requests for excise marks for local beer.  70, 015, 090 excise marks have been given out and the total sum mobilized in the budget amounts to 11 952 357.64 GEL (the same period of previous year: 11, 485, 075.30 GEL);

- 297 requests for excise marks for imported beer. 12, 214, 468 excise marks have been given out and the total sum mobilized in the budget amounts to 1, 916, 393.61 GEL (the same period of previous year: 1 525 673,75 GEL).

Comparison of the current data to the previous ones underlines positive trends as to the increase of budget revenues from sale of excise marks.