The systematic fight against tax fraud continues. Accusations against 19 officials have been brought to court

Fraud in the tax sphere is, unfortunately, still a very urgent problem today. In order to reduce the level of abuse and improve the quality of work of fiscal authorities, the SBI, with the assistance of the State Tax Service leadership, is taking a number of preventive and proactive measures. And the results speak for themselves.

Despite the war in Ukraine, some tax officials continue their illegal activities, causing multimillion-dollar losses to the state, thus aiding the aggressor state. But it is not only the external enemy that is at war, all corrupt officials and schemers in the government will be exposed and punished.

Since the beginning of the year, SBI employees have investigated 87 criminal proceedings on offences committed by tax officials. 24 officials were notified of suspicion, and indictments were sent to court against 19 officials.

The amount of state losses incurred in the completed criminal proceedings totalled UAH 4.3 million. The SBI is already working to recover these losses.

Last year, thanks to the SBI's work, the state recovered UAH 55 million in losses caused by taxpayer crimes.

In addition, the courts have already seized property worth UAH 6.2 million as part of the investigation of tax crimes initiated by the SBI.

Examples of major criminal proceedings initiated by the SBI in relation to tax-related crimes:

• The SBI exposed head of Kyiv tax office on multimillion-dollar illegal enrichment schemes
• The SBI served a notice of suspicion to a tax officer who caused a mining company to underpay over UAH 70 million in environmental tax to the budget
• The SBI has served anotice of suspicion to tax officer from Ternopil region who "helped" company to avoid paying multimillion-dollar taxes
• The SBI exposed multimillion-dollar scheme for selling illegal cigarettes, which was "covered" by tax authorities

and others.