In 2003, 472 lawsuits were filed with the commercial court for the cancellation of state registration, and the registration of 363 business entities (BEs) was cancelled by decisions of the commercial court. This was reported in his speech by the first deputy head of the State Tax Administration in the Volyn region, Yuriy Koval. Through documentary audits conducted during the past year, the negative value of the profit tax object was reduced for 227 BEs by a total of UAH 86,069 thousand, which is 1.9 times more compared to 2002. 31 BEs became profitable, and profit tax totaling UAH 990 thousand was additionally assessed on them. The total number of enterprises in which the volume of sales of goods for cash exceeds 50 percent and which reflected a negative value of the profit tax object for 9 months of 2003 is 5 enterprises (as of 01.01.2003, 7 enterprises were loss-making).