OREANDA-NEWS. July 22, 2008. The companies specializing on gambling make budget payments not exceeding the cost of patents purchased by them. Besides, not all entrepreneurs have licenses for this type of activity, therefore the state budget of Ukraine lost about 90 million hryvnias last year.

For example, the owners of gambling machines in the Kharkov region paid nothing in terms of the profit tax to the state budget last year. It was announced by Stanislav Kosinov, Chief of the territorial administration of the Audit Chamber of Ukraine in the Kharkov, Sumy and Poltava regions.

According to the official, it is difficult to control incomes of the companies dealing with gambling as there are no state standards; the regulatory agencies do not even have the exact data on the number of companies engaged in gambling. So, according to different data, there are from 10 to 86 such companies in the Kharkov region.

Stanislav Kosinov suggested taking the gambling companies outside the city limits to the depressed regions so that taxes from this kind of activity go to the development of these territories.