Ukrainian entrepreneurs will have to pay an environmental tax for using diesel generators as a backup source of electricity during blackouts.
Such generators and similar installations are stationary sources of pollution, the State Tax Service explained, reports Lutsk City Council.
It was emphasized that business entities should pay eco-tax for emissions into the atmosphere. Such a tax is paid for the amount of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere during the burning of diesel fuel and determined by the passport data of the generator.
"The object of environmental tax taxation is defined as the volumes and types of pollutants that are emitted into the atmosphere by such sources of pollution," the message says.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that use of power generators in Ukraine, due to systematic Russian attacks on the power system and blackouts, contributes to air pollution and can negatively affect health people After all, during the operation of a diesel engine, toxic combustion products are released – exhaust gases containing, in particular, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and aldehydes.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Ukraine there are several types of environmental taxes, which enterprises must pay in a mandatory manner. Most often, the eco-tax is paid for emissions into the atmosphere and discharges of pollutants into water bodies.
