OREANDA-NEWS. November 12, 2010. The amount of VAT refund arrears in Ukraine the government had reduced to date to 1-2 billion. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said this today at a briefing.

"Now it comes to 1-1,5-2 billion. This is current data in dynamics. Some amount are refunded, others come for refund. But, in any case, it is not tens of billions, as it was, and it pleases. If previously the debt seemed to be simply unsustainable, now the task was reduced to units" - Mykola Azarov said.

The Prime Minister assured, this issue would surely be resolved. According to the Prime Minister, now the main thing is to make business work transparently: "We are talking about only one thing: we need that business work absolutely transparently. Once a business will start work transparently with the state, the state in the person of tax service will respond adequately, will work equally clearly, automatically."

Mykola Azarov noted that the Government, first of all, has to solve the problem with fictitious VAT creating: "The problem of arrears of VAT will be solved when we will remove false declaration on VAT refunds, when companies will move to electronic declaration, which shows the entire chain of liabilities related to VAT. Artifice creates enormous pressure on the budget and immense difficulties."