OREANDA-NEWS. September 27, 2011. JSC Togliattiazot has become a winner of the annual prize The Best Taxpayer of the Year. The ceremony was held on July 21 at the President Hotel in Moscow.

The company has been awarded in virtue of transparency, prompt and full payment of taxes. JSC Togliattiazot is one of the major taxpayers within the Samara Region. For the past year the enterprise has paid approximately half of a milliard ruble by way of tax payments.

According to Evgeniy Korolev, General Director of JSC Togliattiazot: “The Company’s policy is directed to the maximum discipline and transparency of tax payments. We will continue improving our activity in this sphere in the future”. The Best Taxpayer of the Year prize was instituted by the Business Development Assistance Fund and by number of Committees of the State Douma of the Russian Federation. The ceremony is held under the official sponsorship of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the State Douma, the Federation Council, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Council of Ministers of Belarus and the Russian Federation, the Russian Union of Taxpayers and the International Business Leaders Club (Switzerland).

The objective of this prize is to popularize straight, transparent and competent business activity and create an incentive for economic agents to prompt and free will payment of taxes. Besides JSC Togliattiazot such Russian companies as JSC Rosneft, JSC Tupolev and JSC Surgutneftergaz had become the prize winners before.