The Tax Service has identified 10 well-known retail chains that used business splitting schemes, and the possible tax evasion amounts to at least UAH 1 billion.
This is stated in the Tax Service's report, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
These are retail chains that retail household appliances and electronics, clothing and footwear, and food products. They involved more than 800 individual entrepreneurs in the scheme.
The use of "business splitting" has no business purpose and is used exclusively to minimize tax liabilities. This is an artificial division of large or medium-sized profitable companies into dozens or hundreds of individual entrepreneurs who work on a simplified taxation system.
This approach allows you to formally stay within the established income limits and avoid paying taxes in full.
In practice, after one individual entrepreneur reaches the income threshold of the relevant group of single tax payers, another entrepreneur is introduced into the scheme. At the same time, the business continues to operate as a single network - with the same retail premises, staff, goods and brand.
Materials on the identified facts have been transferred to the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine, which is currently conducting pre-trial investigations.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Cabinet of Ministers proposes that the Verkhovna Rada adopt a new draft Labor Code of Ukraine.
The Code defines 8 signs of labor relations, which will help reduce legal uncertainty and bring employment out of the shadows.
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