OREANDA-NEWS. September 15, 2011. This year the insurance companies have increased tax discharge by profit by 15.5 %.

This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the State Tax Service of Ukraine Alexander Klimenko during operational meeting.

The insurers have paid to the budget of 407.9 million UAH - by 54.7 million more than in the past.

According to the Deputy Chairman of the STS, such statistics are evidence of some success in the fight against the minimization of taxes and the concealment of income in this sphere.

 "For any financier and the economist not a secret that the insurance establishments, on a par with the consulting and marketing companies, very often were active participants of schemes with help which the subjects of real sector have evaded from the taxation. Today, fortunately, there are tools and methods which allow to distinguish fair businessmen from swindlers even in non-productive sphere of a national economy which difficult for the analysis," Alexander Klimenko noted.