The State Tax Service of Ukraine exposed a large -scale tax evasion scheme on two large retail networks that specialize in the sale of Apple brand equipment. The total amount of unpaid value added tax was over UAH 286 million.
According to Ruslan Kravchenko, Ruslan Kravchenko, the inspection was reported by more than 160 stores across the country. Taxpayers found mass violations: sales without the use of cash registers (PPO/PRPO), lack of accounting of goods, as well as a lack of documents confirming the origin of the equipment.
During almost 150 control purchases, only one weekend revealed 22 cases of issuance of non -fiscal checks - counterfeit documents that mimic fiscal. According to Kravchenko, simple monitoring of the presence of control in stores instantly influenced the volume of revenue - they increased at times.
A total of more than 400 entrepreneurs were fined more than UAH 85 million. In addition, the tax has submitted to the Bureau of Economic Security materials on manipulation of "crushing" of business.
The essence of the scheme was that the legal entities allegedly divided sales between hundreds of related individuals-entrepreneurs who worked on a simplified tax system to avoid VAT payment. 170 such FOPs have already been established, their total income reached UAH 1.72 billion.
Currently, these networks have been transferred to the general taxation system in the form of LLC. They officially became VAT payers, and their recorded revenue has increased more than 10 times.
