Metinvest maintains tax payments at near prior-year level in Q1, increases environmental tax by 15% – CEO

Mining and metallurgical group Metinvest transferred UAH 4.3 billion to budgets of all levels in Ukraine in January–March of this year, including associated companies and joint ventures, compared to UAH 4.4 billion in the same period of 2025.

According to a company press release on Monday, the three largest categories of payments were subsoil use fees totaling UAH 1.2 billion, the unified social contribution of UAH 823 million, and personal income tax of UAH 727 million.

In addition, Metinvest’s Ukrainian enterprises paid UAH 351 million in corporate profit tax, UAH 328 million in land fees, UAH 331 million in value-added tax, and UAH 207 million in military levy in January–March 2026. At the same time, environmental tax increased by 15% compared to the first quarter of 2025, to UAH 190 million.

As reported, in 2025 Metinvest paid UAH 18.7 billion in taxes and fees to budgets of all levels in Ukraine. In total, over more than four years of the full-scale invasion, including the first quarter of 2026, the group has contributed about UAH 78 billion to support the country’s economy.

Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of mining and metallurgical enterprises. Its facilities are located in Ukraine – in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The main shareholders of the holding are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%). Metinvest Holding LLC is the managing company of the Metinvest Group.