President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has implemented the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on a moratorium on groundless inspections and interference by state bodies in business activities. This is stated in Decree No. 538 of July 21, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
In particular, the Cabinet of Ministers has been instructed to urgently take organizational and practical measures to increase the efficiency of the implementation of tax and customs control mechanisms by the State Tax Service and the State Customs Service, providing, in particular:
establishing restrictions on conducting inspections of business entities that have the status of authorized economic operators and business entities with a low degree of risk, with the exception of those that carry out activities related to the circulation of excisable goods;
improving the methodology for applying a risk-based approach when determining the feasibility of inspections of economic entities in order to direct control measures to areas with a high risk of violations of tax and customs legislation or smuggling.
The Cabinet of Ministers is also instructed to take measures within a month to ensure the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of foreign investors, in particular with a share of foreign capital.
At the same time, the Cabinet of Ministers is instructed to take, together with the National Police, the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Agency of Ukraine for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (Asset Recovery and Management Agency, ARMA), the State Property Fund, with the participation of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Bureau of Economic Security, and the State Bureau of Investigation, within a three-month period, additional mutually agreed measures to establish and identify the assets of individuals and legal entities to which special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) have been applied in the form of asset blocking, to intensify work on the recovery of assets belonging to such persons to the state, as well as to ensure the development and implementation of additional mechanisms aimed at fulfilling the relevant tasks.
The Prosecutor General's Office, the Bureau of Economic Security, the State Bureau of Investigation, the National Police, and the Security Service of Ukraine are recommended to complete within a month a joint review of the materials of criminal proceedings, in which the legality of the actions of business entities is assessed within the framework of the pre-trial investigation, and based on its results, to make decisions within their competence on the advisability of initiating, changing, and continuing the application of security measures in such criminal proceedings, as well as, if appropriate, to take additional actions to strengthen the protection of rights and prevent restrictions on the legitimate interests of business entities as participants in criminal proceedings.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on July 20, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko announced that the government plans to introduce a one-year moratorium on business inspections, an issue that has already been discussed with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to her, an audit of criminal cases against businesses has also begun in order to close groundless proceedings against entrepreneurial activity.
In June, Zelenskyy instructed to prepare a moratorium on business inspections.
The State Tax Service has planned 4,700 business inspections for 2025.
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