OREANDA-NEWS. January 18, 2012. Into accounts of the French companies in the past year it is reimbursed more than 3.1 billion UAH. This was stated by the Chairman of STS of Ukraine Oleksandr Klimenko during a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Ukraine Alain Remy.

The tax official underlined that among all foreign investors in Ukraine, it was occupied by French high second place in terms of total consideration of received compensation in mode "automatic".

Two thirds or 2.1 billion UAH the VAT have received by businessmen from the country of Balzac and Dumas under the accelerated procedure.

"During the year, the system of automatic VAT start working more powerful. New service has interested both domestic, and foreign businessmen, after all reimbursement for 26 days - is the fastest pace in Europe," Olexander Klimenko noted.

He assured that automatic compensation is just one of a number of measures to attract foreign investments in Ukraine.