As noted in his report at an extended meeting of the Volyn Customs staff by the first deputy head of customs, Mykhailo Honcharenko, this was achieved despite many restraining factors for filling the budget – a reduction in import duty rates on certain groups of goods, a decrease in the number of commodity items with a zero duty rate, and other factors.
According to him, last year customs employees collected and transferred to the state budget 233 million 347 thousand hryvnias, which constitutes almost 104% of the 2005 target. The most funds were transferred by customs officers at the "Lutsk" post. With an annual plan of over 142 million 473 thousand, they actually collected almost 150 million 389 thousand, while last year Volyn Customs employees initiated 227 cases regarding violations of customs rules totaling almost 17 million 696 thousand. At the same time, goods worth almost 1 million 553 thousand hryvnias were actually seized in the cases.