Treasury to receive record dividend payouts this year

"The sum of dividends for the Treasury as a result of decisions made by shareholders meetings amounts to zł.2.09 billion," reveals Agnieszka Dłuska, from the Treasury's press office. This means that the record set in 2002 when companies transferred zł.0.59 billion to the Treasury has been beaten. It also means that the Treasury will receive four times as much funds in dividends than earlier planned. Companies that are due to transfer the most are bank PKO BP and insurer PZU, which will bring the Treasury zł.531.77 million and zł.390.07 million, respectively. These large amounts were requested by the state, which also managed to increase the sum of dividends to be paid out in KGHM and Orlen, where it is not a majority shareholder. If the profits of wholly state-owned companies are added to the sum of dividends, the state can count on record high revenues exceeding zł.3 billion this year. (Parkiet, p. 1) A.K.