The head of the Verkhovna Rada Finance Committee, Danylo Getmantsev, has made a loud statement regarding the popular Georgian restaurant chain Gaga, which operates in Kyiv. According to him, the establishment evades taxes and uses schemes with employees registered as individual entrepreneurs (IEOs).
In his TikTok video, Hetmantsev emphasized that the restaurant does not issue checks and operates "in the black," which was confirmed by inspections.
" You have repeatedly written about Gaga's restaurant. We checked, everything was confirmed ," he said.
The politician explained that the problem is not limited to just one establishment. According to him, similar schemes are also used by large retail chains. They divide the business into dozens of individual entrepreneurs: one of them sells excisable goods under the general taxation system, while the rest work under the simplified system and pay only about 4 thousand hryvnias in taxes per month.
At the same time, stores or restaurants with a turnover of millions of hryvnias would have to pay hundreds of thousands to the budget.
" The store has several registered individual entrepreneurs. At the same time, one of them works on the general taxation system and sells excisable products. All the others are on a single tax. And a store with a turnover of 3 million hryvnias would have to pay 300 thousand in taxes ," explained Getmantsev.
He gave the example of a chain of 117 stores in Chernivtsi region that operates entirely under this scheme. Formally, the entrepreneurs do not conduct their own business, and therefore cannot claim benefits for small businesses.
Previously, Hetmantsev had already publicly addressed the owners of the Gaga chain, pointing to the "principled position of working in cash and not issuing checks."
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The chain of Georgian cuisine restaurants Gaga began operating in Kyiv in 2018. Its founder is businessman Giorgi Kvirikashvili, according to youcontrol.com.ua.
The establishments are known for their rapid expansion, but have now come under the spotlight for possible tax abuse.
