In total, more than 6,000 business entities – legal entities and individuals – pay environmental tax in the region.
During January-November 2022, polluting enterprises of the region paid environmental tax in the amount of 129 million hryvnias, which is 13.2 million hryvnias more than in the same period last year.
Of these, 38.4 million hryvnias were allocated to the special fund of the regional budget – the regional environmental protection fund.
As a reminder, the environmental tax is a state-wide mandatory payment that covers the actual volumes of emissions into the atmospheric air, discharges of pollutants into water bodies, disposal of waste, the actual volume of radioactive waste temporarily stored by their producers, the actual volume of radioactive waste generated and from the actual amount of radioactive waste.