The State Tax Service has exposed a tax evasion scheme in two well-known electronics chains that sell Apple equipment. About said Head of the State Tax Service Ruslan Kravchenko.
According to Kravchenko, these chains have more than 160 stores across the country. Although he does not directly name these chains, the resource «Ekonomichna Pravda» reportsthat we are talking about «Yabko» and Yabluka.
The Head of the State Tax Service claims that the «business fragmentation» scheme allowed these networks to evade VAT by more than UAH 286 million. During the inspections, tax authorities found massive sales of equipment without the use of cash registers. There was also no record of goods and documents on the origin of the equipment.
Ruslan Kravchenko said that over the weekend, the tax authorities conducted almost 150 control purchases in various retail chains and found 22 cases of issuing so-called «checks», which are not really fiscal documents, but simply fakes.
When the tax authorities were constantly present in the stores, the revenue increased significantly. This was confirmed by the State Tax Service’s sales monitoring.
More than 400 inspections resulted in fines of more than UAH 85 million.
The STS passed on information to law enforcement about a scheme of «sharing» sales by electronics chains. According to the Head of the State Tax Service, the legal entities involved up to 300 related individual entrepreneurs operating under the simplified taxation system. Tax authorities have already identified 170 such entrepreneurs, and their total turnover amounted to UAH 1.72 billion. Currently, these networks have stopped selling equipment through sole proprietorships under the simplified taxation system and are operating as LLCs under the general taxation system with VAT. At the same time, their revenues have increased more than 10 times.
Materials on all violations have already been submitted to the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine.
