Taxpayers of the Odessa region paid 20.4 million UAH of rent for the use of natural resources to budgets of all levels during January – May 2020.
Of these, 12.7 million UAH of rent was paid to the state budget during 5 months of 2020. The biggest share in the rent revenues to the state budget is rent for the special water use, namely 6.1 million UAH (48.4%).
Also, almost 4.5 million UAH of rent for the subsoil use and 2.1 million UAH of rent for the use of radio frequency resources of Ukraine were paid to the state budget.
During January – May 2020, the amount of 7.7 million UAH of rent was paid to local budgets, including: 5 million UAH of rent for the special water use; 2.2 million UAH of rent for the subsoil use and almost 0.5 million UAH of rent for the special use of forest resources.
Main Directorate of the STS in Odessa region reminds that on May 25, 2020 the Law of Ukraine as of 16.01.2020 № 466-IX “On amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding improvement of tax administration, elimination of technical and logical inconsistencies in tax legislation” (excepting some changes that come into force on the 1st of July 2020 and from the 1st of January, 2021) (hereinafter – the Law № 466-IX).
Specifically, the Law № 466-IX:
- the rent rates for the subsoil use for extraction of minerals (ferrous metals (excepting iron ore), non-ferrous and alloying metals; iron ore) are changed;
- the list of operations to which correction factors are applicable, which are determined depending on the type of mineral (mineral raw material) and conditions of its extraction, is specified;
- some frequency ranges for which the rent is paid are changed;
- rental rates for the special use of forest resources are specified, namely reduced categories from 5 to 3.
