Excerpt from Serhiy Kuyun’s post on how gas station chains pay taxes and show profits during the war.
Check out the chart of income tax payments by the networks, and then read on.
“Just think about it, OKKO paid THREE TIMES more income tax in Q3 2023 than the rest… the 20 largest gas station chains combined! (Except for Ukrnafta, which is not included in the rating due to the peculiarities of tax reporting). And if we take into account the hundreds of millions in aid to the frontline, which is actually also OKKO’s profit, this gap will become even larger.
Rhetorical questions posed to the audience:
Why are you engaged in a business that is not profitable?
Why is everyone interested in buying gas stations and land plots if they are not profitable?
Why doesn’t anyone want to sell their gas stations if it is such an unprofitable business?
Why do you build new gas stations if they are not profitable?
Where do you even get the money for this construction if there is no profit?
In fact, there is profit.”
