Last year, Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (members of ChTPZ Group) paid 6.123 billion RUR worth of taxes, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier (5.25 million RUR) by 17%. This includes 2.485 billion directed to the federal budget, the Group’s press officer said to UrBC.

Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant paid 3.191 billion RUR worth of taxes in 2007, which is nearly 1.5 times more than the 2.188 billion RUR paid in 2006; this included 1.424 billion RUR directed to the federal budget, 1.337 billion RUR transferred to Chelyabinsk Region’s budget, and 154.6 billion RUR given to the local budget.

Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant paid 2.932 billion RUR worth of taxes in 2007, which falls short of the previous year’s figures (3.62 billion RUR) by 4%. This included 1.61 billion RUR directed to the federal budget, 1.281 billion RUR transferred to Sverdlovsk Region’s budget, and 204.5 million RUR given to the city of Pervouralsk.

The two plants directed 660 million RUR to the extra-budgetary funds in 2007.

The general increase in the amount of paid taxes has been brought about by the greater sales volumes (this is primarily true of large-diameter pipes for O & G industry).