Over 12 months of 2016, Lemtrans paid UAH 541.7 million in taxes, including more than UAH 499 million to the national budget (UAH 447.2 million in VAT), UAH 22.3 million to local budgets, and UAH 20 million as a consolidated social tax. Compared to 2015, the company paid 66.8% more in taxes to all kinds of budgets.

Lemtrans CEO Vladimir Mezentsev said: “Despite the challenging situation in the rail freight market over the past few years, we manage to maintain amounts of taxes paid to national and local budgets. Lemtrans has always been a socially responsible company and a model taxpayer.”