The Roshen Corporation paid UAH 1.213 billion of taxes to the national budget of Ukraine in January-October 2017, the corporation's press service has told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to the press service, UAH 296.6 million of profit tax, UAH 10.5 million of military tax, UAH 634.1 million of VAT and UAH 135 million of single social security tax were paid.
Some UAH 136.6 million was paid to local budgets, including UAH 126.4 million personal income tax and UAH 10.2 million of land tax and other taxes.
"Mostly (about 90-95%) taxes are paid to the national budget of Ukraine. The rest is paid to the budgets of those countries where there are representative offices of Roshen, namely Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Bulgaria, the corporation said.
Roshen said that only in 2016, the corporation paid UAH 1.545 billion of taxes, and in 2015 - UAH 1.337 billion.