In the first half of 2023, the Dobrobut medical network paid almost UAH 160 million in taxes to the state budget.
According to its press release, in June of this year, 32 thousand adults received consultations at Dobrobut clinics, which is 30% more than a year earlier, and 12 thousand children – 70% more.
The medical network reminds that in the first half of the year it opened two new facilities: in January, its Dobrobut multidisciplinary hospital at 12A Bazhana Avenue, and in April, the Dobrobut medical center for adults and children at 1/2 Entuziastiv Street.
In addition, in April, a new dental clinic Dobrobut Dental Clinic was opened at 14-16 Mikhnovskoho Blvd.
The chain clarifies that in 2022, the three most sought-after doctors were a general practitioner, an obstetrician-gynecologist and a neurologist, and in 2023 – a general practitioner, an obstetrician-gynecologist and an otolaryngologist.
The press release also notes that Dobrobut continues to provide free medical care to Ukrainians affected by the war. With the support of Direct Relief and the Dobrobut Foundation, 469 people have received free inpatient and surgical treatment at the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center at 3 Simi Idzikovskikh Street since the beginning of the year. In six months, Dobrobut Foundation has raised over UAH 2.4 million for the treatment of Ukrainians.
Today, the network employs more than 2,700 people.
“Dobrobut is one of the largest private medical networks in Ukraine. The network includes 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, an emergency service, dentistry and pharmacies. The medical centers of the network provide services for children and adults in more than 75 medical areas. Every year, Dobrobut specialists perform more than 7000 surgeries. The network employs 2700 people.
Since the first days of the war, Dobrobut’s medical and diagnostic center in Kyiv, with the support of Direct Relief International and Dobrobut Foundation, has been providing free assistance to wounded soldiers and people in difficult situations due to the war.
“Dobrobut became the first private network in Ukraine to receive funding from the U.S. federal government – with the support of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the company will build a modern physical rehabilitation center.
Enterprises of the group of companies “ATB” according to the results of work in the first half of 2023 paid taxes and fees, including customs payments and the unified social contribution (USV), for a total amount of 12.01 billion UAH, the press service of the company reported to the agency “Interfax-Ukraine”.
According to the press release, this is 22.7% more than in the same period last year, when UAH 9.79 billion of such contributions were made.
It is specified that UAH 8.09 billion was transferred to the state budget of the country in January-June this year (against UAH 6.65 billion in the first half of 2022), UAH 2.8 billion was paid to local budgets, and UAH 1.12 billion was paid to trust funds.
ATB Corporation is an association of large Ukrainian enterprises operating in such business spheres as retail trade, asset management, production and sale of food products, provision of services in the sphere of sports and recreation. More than 70 thousand people work at the enterprises of the corporation.
As of June 1, 2023, the corporation’s retail network has 1,188 stores compared to 1,316 stores in January-2022. According to the results of the last year in the conditions of a full-scale war against Ukraine unleashed by Russia, ATB Corporation paid UAH 20.4 billion of taxes and fees to budgets of different levels – almost UAH 1 billion more than in 2021.
Naftogaz group has paid more than UAH 30 billion of taxes to the state budget of Ukraine in the four months of 2023, which is 15% of all tax revenues to it during this time.
According to a report on the group’s website on Monday, Naftogaz Group paid a total of nearly 33 billion hryvnias to the state and local budgets as of May 1, 2023.
“Despite the war and the consequences it caused, Naftogaz Group remains one of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine and a reliable support for the treasury. Only in April we accumulated 6.2 billion UAH of taxes, which is almost 13% of all tax revenues of the state budget of the country”, – Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine Alexei Chernyshov was quoted in the message.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Ukrhazvydobuvannia (UHV), 100% owned by Naftohaz Ukrainy, transferred UAH 6.32 billion of rent payments to the country’s consolidated budget based on its activities in January-March 2023.
In January-March this year, the mining and metallurgical group Metinvest, including associated companies and joint ventures, paid more than UAH 2.5 billion in taxes and fees to the budgets of all levels in Ukraine.
According to the company’s press release on Wednesday, Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest remains the backbone of the country’s economy amid a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In January-March this year, Metinvest’s Ukrainian enterprises paid about UAH 725 million in unified social contributions, more than UAH 649 million in personal income tax and about UAH 442 million in income tax.
Land rent – more than UAH 288 mln, subsoil use fee – about UAH 174 mln and ecological tax – almost UAH 136 mln, which are the most significant sources of the state and local budgets of Ukraine.
Director General of “Metinvest” Yuriy Ryzhenkov said that it is not in the tradition of Ukrainians to give up.
“Therefore, the enterprises of Metinvest continue to fill the treasury of Ukraine in extremely difficult military conditions, under the constant threat of enemy shelling. We hold the line on the economic direction, despite the loss of control over the Mariupol plants, the blockade of the ports and other negative factors for the industry. After all, we understand that business must work to win and then to rebuild Ukraine. All as one, because we have one country,” the top manager was quoted by the press service.
As it was reported, taking into account the associated companies and joint ventures, in 2022, Metinvest transferred 20.5 billion UAH of taxes and duties to the budgets of all levels in Ukraine.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of mining and metallurgical companies. The enterprises of the group are mainly located in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
The major shareholders of the holding are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%) that manage it jointly.
Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
Ukraine’s largest mobile operator “Kyivstar” in a year of war paid 10.7 billion UAH of taxes and invested in technological development of 3.5 billion UAH, the president of the company, Alexander Komarov said on Facebook.
The second largest operator “Vodafone Ukraine” reported paying 4.97 billion UAH of taxes and fees in 2022 and almost 4 billion UAH of investments in support and development of telecom infrastructure in Ukraine.
“92% of the network is working as usual today. This is an incredible result, given that 8% are in the occupied territories. At the same time we returned connection to 815 settlements, where we built more than 600 base stations (BS). More 700 new base stations of 4G standard were built, which increased the 4G coverage by 20%”, – wrote Komarov.
He added that the generating capacity of Kyivstar reached 39.2 MW thanks to increase of the number of diesel generators by 75% and installation of 18 thousand new batteries.
“As of today 88% of the network in the country is working in normal mode” – stated “Vodafone Ukraine”.
According to the company, 581 base stations were resumed and 2.9 thousand km of fiber-optic cable were repaired, thanks to which it was possible to restore the availability of services to people in 759 settlements of the country.
“Vodafone Ukraine” also reported that 723 base stations were launched in new locations, 414 additional mobile generators were purchased and 24.71 thousand batteries were replaced.
Ukrainian business paid 80 billion UAH more in taxes in 2022 than in peaceful 2021, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said.
“Despite continued hostilities and enemy attacks, we will do everything possible to make 2023 the first step for a great recovery of the Ukrainian economy. In 2022, we did the impossible and financed absolutely all budget expenditures. In total, these expenditures amounted to about 2.7 trillion UAH,” Shmygal said at a government meeting on Friday.
According to him, Ukrainian citizens and businesses last year paid more than 900 billion UAH to the state budget, another 425 billion UAH were paid to the Pension Fund and social insurance funds.
“Due to the issue of military bonds, about 600 billion UAH were received. We are grateful to the citizens and businesses who bought these bonds and thus invested in a strong army and a stable state,” the prime minister added.
Shmygal thanked Ukrainian businesses, which paid 80 billion more in taxes in 2022 than in 2021.
“Your steadfastness, patriotism, adaptability and social responsibility allowed to keep the economy of Ukraine afloat. 2023 should be the year of our victory and the year of the beginning of the recovery of our economy. We work together for this,” he concluded.
