Excise tax payers of Transcarpathia have paid to the budget more than 5,200,000 UAH

This amount of money has been paid to the budget only in January-February 2014.

It should be noted that the excise tax is the third highest tax revenue to the state budget after the VAT and income tax. In particular, the excise tax is paid for ethyl alcohol and other distillates, spirits, beer, tobacco products, tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gas, cars, car bodies, trailers, motorcycles.

Please note that starting from March 1, 2014, the tax rate on alcoholic beverages, ethyl alcohol, sparkling wines and aerated wines is increased by 14%. This is provided by the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding the rates of certain taxes" dd. 19.12.2013, № 713-VII.

In particular, the excise tax rate on 1 liter of 100 percent alcohol was increased from 49.49 UAH to 56.42 UAH

Source – Department of Information and Communication

of the Main Office of the Ministry of Income in Transcarpathian region