On May 8, the President of the Republic of Artsakh signed the Law of the Republic of Artsakh "On Making Amendments to the Law on the 2019 State Budget of the Republic of Artsakh", which increased the tax revenues and state duties for 2019 with a state budget of 3 billion drams and added the same amount the 2019 state-financed capital investment program aims to build and repair a number of primary and strategic facilities facing the government of the Republic of Artsakh.
The adoption of the law is conditioned by the amendments made to the Law "On the Subsoil use Code of the Republic of Artsakh" dated December 20 of last year, and the Law "On Nature protection and nature utilization payments" dated March 27 of the current year, which was revised the calculation of royalties for metal mining fossil.