The tax payments of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) totalled 496 million manat in January-July 2009, the SOCAR official Web site said.

SOCAR tax payments were 99 million in July.
“In January-July, SOCAR assignments to the State Social Protection Fund totaled 61 million, 8 million of which was transferred in July,” the Web site said.
SOCAR is expected to assign 1.45 billion manat in taxes to the state budget in 2009.
/Interfax Azerbaijan/