Ukrnafta plans to fulfill current tax liabilities, reach new agreements on debts
Public joint-stock company Ukrnafta plans to fulfill its tax liabilities on time and agree to the new conditions of paying old tax debts with the government, Ukrnafta Head Mark Rollins said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.
"The debt is not growing. Last month we paid around UAH 1 billion of current liabilities. We plan to do this in the future… We would not pay on restructuring in October," he said.
He added that now new offers on the scheme to pay old tax debts are being drawn up.
"I haven’t made an official offer to the government on the issue. I hope to do this by the middle of November," he said.
Rollins said that one of the options to settle the problem is the provision of gas previously sold to Naftogaz Ukrainy but not paid which have court rulings as tax collateral. The problem is that the cost of gas is assessed differently by both sides.
"There is a financial liability [of Ukrnafta] on taxes and on gas [to Ukrnafta]. The uniting of all these liabilities will be the subject of discussion in the next several weeks," he said.
Rollins said that he plans to hold several meetings on the issue, in particular, with the top managers of the State Fiscal Service.