Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk forecasts a significant increase in the gross domestic product indicator in March 2006 compared to March of last year. \n \nHe stated this to journalists on Wednesday, reports UNIAN. \n \nThe minister explained his position by the fact that in March a sharp drop in import growth rates is forecast, and as a result - an increase in the GDP indicator. \n \n"GDP includes production plus exports and minus imports. In March of this year, import growth rates will sharply fall, because in January-February of last year there was a "collapse," that is, almost everything was smuggled, and from March legalization began," said Pynzenyk. \n \nThus, emphasized the minister, when calculating the import growth indicator for January-February 2006, compared to the indicator for the corresponding period of 2005, the base of comparison was understated. \n \n"There is a cleansing of the statistical base from those manipulations that existed," said Pynzenyk. \n \nThe minister dismissed assumptions about possible tax pressure on business, which could be evidenced by a significant increase in tax revenue volumes amid a decline in GDP growth rates in 2005. \n \nThus, GDP growth in 2004 was 12.1%, and in 2005 - 2.4%, however, revenues of the general fund of the state budget in 2004 grew by 23%, and in 2005 - by 63%. \n \n"I would ask another question - where were the revenues of 2004, where did they go? We have our suspicions," said Pynzenyk.