OREANDA-NEWS. May 4, 2010. Belarusian companies’ budget arrears increased 90% in January-February 2010 to 112.2 billion Belarusian rubles (Br) as of March 1, 2008, an official with Belarus’ Statistics Committee told.

Of all arrears, charged but unpaid VAT amounted to 41.5 billion rubles as of March 1, up 46.1% in January-February alone.

Profit tax arrears amounted to 21.8 billion rubles, up 5.6 times in January-February, and land payment arrears were at 11.4 billion rubles, up 170%.

Excise tax arrears reached 9.6 billion rubles, up 360% in January-February, property tax arrears 8 billion rubles, up 63%, and environmental tax arrears amounted to 1.9 billion rubles, up 9.5%.

Deferred tax payments to the state budget went down 4% in January-February 2010 to 260.8 billion rubles.