Ukraine`s First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Yulia Kovaliv projects that budget payments to be made by state-owned companies by July 1, 2016, for their operations in 2015 will total UAH 11.1 billion, which will be 56% up from 2014.
”Budget transfers from state-owned companies based on their performance in 2015 are projected at UAH 11.1 billion, including UAH 2.4 billion in dividends,” she wrote on Facebook.
In 2015, the state budget received UAH 7.1 billion in dividends (portion of profit) from state-owned companies, including UAH 1.8 billion in dividends paid by OJSC Ukrnafta based on the company`s performance in 2011-2013, according to Kovaliv.
As UaPosition reported earlier, losses of top 100 state-owned companies in 2015 decreased by 94.1%, to UAH 7 billion.
Oil and gas giant NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine posted a loss of UAH 25 billion for 2015, as compared with a loss of UAH 89 billion in 2014, according to preliminary reports.