UAH 68 bln of taxes were collected for January 2017, which is twice higher than in 2016. It is the result of unshadowing, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said during his working visit in Kharkiv, UNN reports.
“Ukraine collected UAH 30 bln of taxes for January 2016. According to preliminary statistics, - UAH 68 bln for January 2017. What is it? It is the unshadowing. No matter, how you would want, but the economy did not increase twice. These money, which previously were going to corrupted channels for financing shadow deals, currently go to the state budget, work for defense and security, work for development, work for raising the social security of people”, he said.
It should be reminded that during 2016, the consolidated budget of Ukraine received UAH 758.5 bln.
