The State Tax Service has identified 7 retail chains that evaded UAH 668.5 million in taxes by splitting up their businesses.
This was announced by the acting head of the Tax Service, Lesia Karnaukh, on Facebook, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"Business fragmentation. The State Tax Service has identified 7 retail chains that evaded taxes through such a scheme. The budget lost UAH 668.5 million in VAT as a result of its use. These are 6 chains selling household appliances and electronics, as well as one selling women's clothing and footwear," she wrote.
It is noted that the legal entity's activities were artificially divided between dozens of individual entrepreneurs who operate under the simplified taxation system.
A total of 491 such individual entrepreneurs were identified.
Their total income is over UAH 4 billion.
"Formally, everything was supposedly distributed between separate, supposedly independent, entrepreneurs. However, the analytical studies conducted, as well as actual tax inspections, showed otherwise. Individual entrepreneurs are interconnected: they use the same IP addresses, have common places of registration, work in the same retail outlets, use the same trademark and even have common employees. You will have to answer for games with the fragmentation of large businesses to evade taxes. Because this is not optimization, but manipulation," Karnaukh added.
Currently, information about the identified facts of violations has already been transferred to the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in January-June 2025, the gambling business paid UAH 9.6 billion in taxes, which is 14.7% more compared to the same period last year.
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