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TAX CREDITS | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
TAX CREDITS |
TAX CREDITS | NOTE 7 — TAX CREDITS
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Current |  |  |  |  |
ICMS (state VAT) |  | 155,096 |  | 130,718 |
Social security financing |  | 91,229 |  | 173,453 |
Financing of social integration program |  | 20,242 |  | 35,135 |
IPI (federal VAT) |  | 59,982 |  | 48,751 |
IVA (value-added tax) |  | 48,139 |  | 85,674 |
Others |  | 27,741 |  | 30,698 |
|  | 402,429 |  | 504,429 |
Non-current |  |  |  |  |
ICMS (state VAT) |  | 26,135 |  | 50,757 |
Social security financing |  | 360 |  | 2,294 |
Financing of social integration program and Others |  | 4,346 |  | 3,652 |
|  | 30,841 |  | 56,703 |
|  | 433,270 |  | 561,132 |
The estimates of realization of non-current tax credits are as follows:
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
2018 |  | — |  | 33,840 |
2019 |  | 18,017 |  | 14,334 |
2020 |  | 7,062 |  | 8,529 |
2021 on |  | 5,762 |  | — |
|  | 30,841 |  | 56,703 |

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