102,974,900,000 RUR were directed to the federal budget from Sverdlovsk Region’s territory in January-May 2008, which exceeded the figures for January-May 2008 by 31.6%, the spokesperson for the regional division of the Federal Tax Service reports.


Sverdlovsk Region is reported to have transferred 28,810,500,000 RUR worth of tax payments to the federal budget, which is 1.4 times better than a year earlier. As for the regional budget itself, Sverdlovsk Region received 40,141,500,000 RUR worth of tax and non-tax payments in January-May 2008, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 27.6%. These figures included the profits from excise duty payments that are to be directed to the regional budget.


In addition, 50,988,000,000 RUR worth of tax payments were transferred into the territorial budget in January-May 2008, which was 27.4% more than in January-May 2007.