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Yaroslavsky’s DMZ increased tax payments by 64%

Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMZ, formerly Dniprokoks), a part of DCH Steel of businessman Aleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH group, paid over UAH 657 million in taxes in 2023, up 64% compared to 2022.

According to the company, value added tax accounted for UAH 277.5 million in the structure of payments to budgets of all levels. Income tax amounted to UAH 122 million, and unified social tax, rent and other contributions amounted to UAH 257 million.

It is noted that this result of significant support for the state budget was noted by Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy. He sent a letter of gratitude to the company, in which he noted the hard work of the plant’s team and emphasized that DMZ is one of the industry leaders in terms of tax payments.

“I am grateful to every employee of Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works for their contribution to the defense capability of our country, its endurance and strength. We continue to work on the economic front to maintain the financial stability of the state,” said Vitaly Bash, CEO of DCH Steel.

In 2023, the plant increased its rolled steel output by 86.2% compared to 2022, up to 105.6 thousand tons, and coke output by 38.5%, up to 292.7 thousand tons.

DMZ specializes in the production of steel, pig iron, rolled products and products made from them. On March 1, 2018, DCH Group signed an agreement to buy Dnipro Metallurgical Plant from Evraz.

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“Naftogaz” paid UAH 6.1 bln in taxes in January

In January 2024, Naftogaz Group companies paid UAH 5.6 billion in taxes to the state budget of Ukraine.

“8.5% of all tax revenues to the state budget of Ukraine in January 2024 are taxes paid by Naftogaz Group. We are talking about the amount of UAH 5.6 billion,” the group said on its website on Tuesday.

Another UAH 0.5 billion was transferred to local budgets.

“Naftogaz Group remains one of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine and a reliable support for the state budget. In total, over 31 days of January 2024, we have already paid UAH 6.1 billion in taxes to the country’s consolidated budget,” the group’s CEO Oleksiy Chernyshev said as quoted on the website.

As reported, in 2023, Naftogaz Group companies paid UAH 90.2 billion in taxes, UAH 83.4 billion of which went to the state budget and UAH 6.8 billion to local budgets.

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In 2023, Continental paid UAH 1.4 bln in taxes to budgets of all levels

In 2023, the agricultural holding Continental Farmers Group paid UAH 1.4 billion to the budgets of all levels and allocated UAH 37.7 million for social projects, the holding’s press service said on Tuesday.

“As an honest and responsible business, we constantly report annually on taxes paid and financial support to the communities we cooperate with. I would like to emphasize that Continental Farmers Group is and will remain a reliable long-term partner for both its shareholders and the state, especially in this difficult period,” the press service quoted Georg von Nolken, CEO of the agricultural holding, as saying.

According to the report, support for Ukrainian defenders remains an integral part of Continental’s social responsibility policy. Since February 2022, the agricultural holding has allocated UAH 55.1 million to help the military.

Mriya Agro Holding and CFG, united under the name Continental Farmers Group, have been operating as a single business since November 2018, when Mriya entered into an agreement with international investor Salic UK to sell its assets.

Salic was founded in 2012. Its sole shareholder is the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, which invests in agricultural and livestock production.

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ATB Group paid UAH 25 bln in taxes and fees

According to the results of 2023, ATB Group paid taxes and fees to the budgets of all levels, including customs duties and unified social contribution, totaling UAH 25.06 billion, which is UAH 4.62 billion more than in 2022, the company’s press service reports.

According to the report, in particular, the state budget received UAH 16.49 billion, local budgets – UAH 6.02 billion, and UAH 2.55 billion was allocated to trust funds.

Last year, the corporation’s flagship enterprise, ATB-Market LLC, paid taxes and fees totaling UAH 19.45 billion (in 2022 – UAH 15.63 billion). Last year, the state budget received UAH 12.41 billion from ATB-Market LLC, UAH 5.12 billion in taxes and fees were paid to local budgets, and UAH 1.92 billion to trust funds.

ATB Corporation is an association of large Ukrainian companies operating in such business areas as retail, asset management, food production and sales, and sports and recreation services. The corporation employs over 70 thousand people.

As of June 1, 2023, the corporation’s retail network consisted of 1188 stores compared to 1316 stores in January 2022. Last year, the chain’s turnover amounted to UAH 176.9 billion, which is 2% lower than in 2021 (UAH 179.8 billion).

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OTP Bank will pay UAH 4.8 bln to budgets of all levels in 2023

The total amount of taxes to be paid by OTP Bank in 2023 is UAH 4.8 billion.

The largest part is income tax – UAH 3.7 billion. The amount of military duty for 2023 is UAH 32.6 million. VAT, local taxes, non-resident tax, personal income tax, unified social tax, and unified social tax make up the rest of the total amount of payments by OTP Bank.

We would like to remind you that OTP Bank was ranked third in terms of capital adequacy according to the results of the stability assessment conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine. Thus, according to the asset quality ratio (AQR), the core capital adequacy ratio (N3) of OTP Bank amounted to UAH 7 billion 234 million, or 19.09%, with the required level of 7%.

Regulatory capital (N2) at OTP Bank amounted to UAH 12 billion 315 million. Its adequacy ratio is 32.5% with the required level of 10%.

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“Astarta” paid UAH 2.3 bln in taxes to budgets of all levels

In 2023, Astarta Agro Holding, the largest sugar producer in Ukraine, paid UAH 2.31 billion in taxes and fees to the budgets of all levels, up 42% compared to 2022, the company’s press service reported on Facebook.

According to the report, over UAH 1.31 billion of this amount went to local budgets of territorial communities in Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine.

“In terms of the entire team of the agro-industrial holding in 2023, Astarta paid UAH 343 thousand of taxes per employee. In total, during the full-scale war alone, our company transferred over UAH 3.84 billion to the budgets of all levels. This is our contribution to strengthening the country’s defense capability, increasing the economic resilience of local communities, enhancing social responsibility and transparency of Ukrainian business,” said Viktor Ivanchuk, founder and CEO of the agricultural holding.

In addition, Astarta, together with its Ukrainian and international partners, also continues to implement social initiatives as part of the Common Help Ukraine humanitarian project. As of today, the financial value of charitable contributions and humanitarian aid provided by the project already exceeds UAH 1.062 billion.

“Astarta is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding company operating in eight regions of Ukraine. It comprises six sugar factories, agricultural enterprises with a land bank of 220 thousand hectares and dairy farms with 22 thousand cattle, an oil extraction plant in Globyno (Poltava region), seven elevators and a biogas complex.

In the third quarter of 2023, the agricultural holding earned EUR1.24 million in net profit, down 27.7 times compared to the same period in 2022. Astarta’s revenue decreased by 14.4% to EUR104.75 million, gross profit by 2.7 times to EUR26.96 million, operating profit by 7.6 times to EUR6.79 million, and EBITDA by 42.7% to EUR97.25 million.

Due to significantly better performance in the first half of this year compared to the first half of last year, in the first nine months of 2023, net profit decreased by 9.8% to EUR 55.97 million, while revenue increased by 14.8% to EUR 392.00 million. The company’s gross profit increased by 3.0% to EUR 151.91 million, while operating profit decreased by 15.9% to EUR 79.91 million and EBITDA by 10.8% to EUR 116.63 million.

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