OREANDA-NEWS. August 08, 2011. Tax revenues of the consolidated budget in comparison with the last year have grown in 1.4 times. About this during the press conference, said Deputy Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine Sergiy Lekar.

According to him, in budgets of all levels have received 147,8 billion UAH - to 42,3 billion UAH more  than in the past.

"These results were achieved thanks to the positive trends in the economy, tax reform and the change of the philosophy of work of tax service - a shift to the improvement of the taxpayers service. We have created conditions for increase of business activity and competitiveness both on the domestic and on the foreign market", - the Sergiy Lekar said.

In the treasury of the tax collected 107,2 billion UAH (39 billion more than last year). In local budgets - 42,8 billion UAH.

According to him, from the destruction of schemes of tax evasion and effective fight against shadow economy the state this year additionally received 14.1 billion hryvnias.