Business suffers from the pressure of tax officials

The European Business Association appealed to the government and the president to review the approaches to work with business on the part of regulatory bodies. In particular, the business complains that:

• The problem of blocking tax invoices and VAT refunds still remains unresolved. The promised automatic unlocking does not work in practice. The registration system and the invoice unlocking algorithm are designed in such a way that manual intervention at each stage could interfere with the automatic operation of the system and create conditions for double payment of taxes.

 

• During inspections, tax officials do not take into account the realities of business operations in some regions (lack of electricity, Internet and safe living conditions) and demand to provide huge volumes of documents in a short period of time (for example, 1 working day).

 

• Taxpayers deny transparent companies the right to use the current provisions of the Tax Code regarding the impossibility of submitting reports or the absence of primary documents due to the loss of such documents as a result of active hostilities or occupation.

 
And this list is not exhaustive.
 

We will remind that according to the results of 2022, business has worsened the assessment of the tax regime in Ukraine (EBA survey). The rating dropped to 2.97 points out of 5 possible.