The largest Ukrainian mining and metallurgical holding "Metinvest" reported that in the near future can shut down its plants due to the disconnection from the system of automatic VAT refund.

"We had announced that not a single one of our factories in the agreed list for the automatic VAT refund in November. In the event that the indemnity would not, in the current market situation, the holding company will have in the near future to stop operating their plants. This will bring the entire steel industry of the country and reduction of tens of thousands of jobs, "is contained in the message of the press service of the holding, the message of the General Director of "Metinvest" Yuri Ryzhenkova.

According to the press service, in November, all group companies are disconnected from the system of automatic VAT refund, and the refund of the tax may be, will be carried out in manual mode, However, the amount of the compensation group is not known.

"This is not the 1st case over the last few months, when the company "Metinvest" off from the system of automatic VAT refund. However, This is an unprecedented case when the system at the same time excluded all enterprises of the group ", - reported in the report.

in September, the SBU said that he has suspended reimbursement of taxes small businesses, registered within the Donbass, not controlled Kiev. The speech then went about LLC " Metinvest-Ukraine ", PJSC "Khartsyzsk pipe company" and PJSC " yenakiieve iron and steel enterprise ".

according Metinvest, the country's debt before its organizations for reimbursement of VAT on November 1, was 2, 33 billion hryvnia (102 million dollars at current official rate). Now the tax authorities have not confirmed indemnity 1, UAH 1 billion (48 million dollars) in automatic mode." The belief that this amount will be refunded in manual mode, the group is missing ", - stated in the message.

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