OREANDA-NEWS. During the six months of 2013, OJSC Irkutskenergo’s payments to the budget and state non-budgetary funds amounted to RUB 6.809 bln, or 101% of the figure for 2012. Thus, during the half year, income tax totaled RUB 2.148 bln, VAT amounted to RUB 2.743 bln, while property tax totaled RUB 366 mln; water tax amounted to RUB 326 mln, and personal income tax totaled RUB 309 mln; RUB 172 mln were allocated for paying land value tax and rent, while payments to the environmental fund totaled RUB 70 mln. During the six months, the budget of the Irkutsk Region added RUB 2.837 bln.

During the six months of 2013, the group of companies comprising OJSC Irkutskenergo, LLC Vostsibugol and subsidiaries paid RUB 9.092 bln to the budget and state non-budgetary funds, which amounts to 102% of the figure for 2012. In 2013, OJSC Irkutskenergo’s tax payments are projected to total RUB 10.868 bln. We would like to remind that in 2012, the Company paid RUB 9.263 bln to the budget and state non-budgetary funds. In 2011, this figure totaled RUB 9.203 bln, while in 2010, 2009 and 2008 it amounted to RUB 8.902 bln, RUB 6.073 bln and RUB 5.501 bln respectively.

Oleg Prichko, CEO of OJSC Irkutskenergo: “Irkutskenergo has been one of the three largest taxpayers in the Irkutsk Region for several years. Within five years, the amount of tax payments almost doubled. In 2012, Irkutskenergo paid over RUB 9 bln to the budget and state non-budgetary funds, which is about RUB 60 mln more than a year earlier.”