In January-July, 32.5 thousand payers paid almost 3 billion UAH of environmental tax. This is 18.9 million UAH, or 0.6% more than in the corresponding period last year.
The largest environmental tax revenues were provided by payers:
– Kyiv – 619.8 million UAH;
– Dnipropetrovsk region – 579.4 million UAH;
– Ivano-Frankivsk region – 308.0 million UAH;
– Zaporizhzhia region – 206.4 million UAH.
The environmental tax is an important source of financing for environmental protection measures. Its revenues contribute to the implementation of environmental protection programs, the restoration of natural resources, and the improvement of environmental safety.
Payers of the environmental tax are business entities that carry out:
– Emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere by stationary sources;
– Discharges of pollutants directly into water bodies;
– Waste disposal;
– Generation and temporary storage of radioactive waste. (State Tax Service)