Supported by the Government, the STS starts a large-scale anti-corruption audit of its leadership – Serhii Verlanov
Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine , published 17 January 2020 at 19:56 Chapter: News
The State tax service will cooperate with the law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies in order to eradicate any corruption manifestations in the STS permanently. This was stated by Chairman of the STS Serhii Verlanov on the air of one TV channel. Chairman of the State tax service particularly emphasized that all materials and results of the audit will be sent to the law enforcement agencies.
“We started a mass counteraction against corruption and other negative phenomena. We do not stand aside. The government, President, Verkhovna Rada, law enforcement agencies and we are doing our best. Situation collapsed and we started to implement specific cases. We are in full coordination with various law enforcement agencies. That is why I appeal to our employees who have not yet realized that the situation has changed. They must understand this and stop any corruption actions that they have ever committed. It is necessary to stop scaring the business, resort to extortions and work exclusively for the state” – commented Chairman of the STS Serhii Verlanov.
In addition, to fulfill the Order of the Prime Minister Oleksii Honcharuk, the Tax service has already started work on developing a recertification plan for all employees of the STS of Ukraine which should be submitted for consideration to the Cabinet of Ministers within two weeks.
Meanwhile, the STS successfully fulfills its main task - filling the budget. According to the results of 2019, the State tax service has fulfilled the indicative figures of the Ministry of Finance by 100.8%. The budget received additional 4 billion UAH. According to the local taxes, the annual plan has been completed in 11 months. That is, as of December 1, 2019 the Tax service collected more funds than local councils expected to receive for the whole year.
According to Chairman of the STS Serhii Verlanov such results were achieved due to analytical work which has increased significantly in the second half of 2019.
“We qualitatively analyze macro indicators of payment of the value added tax, volumes of supply, loading and we daily analyze risks of tax invoices online. Fiscal discipline and combating schemes have yielded concrete results. Thus, the value added tax has increased by 14% year-on-year and after the launch of the new Tax Service - by more than 20%, in financial equivalent it is about 10 billion UAH.” – emphasized Chairman of the Tax service.
Serhii Verlanov also noted that by strengthening the analytical work of the STS, the number of audits was reduced. In particular, the number of scheduled audits in 2019 has decreased by 14% compared to 2018. This year, the number of scheduled audits will be reduced by another 20%.
Also there is improvement of the automatic monitoring system which improves its quality, accuracy of risk operations determination and transparency of work. Due to this the number of suspended tax invoices / calculation adjustments in relation to registered in November last year was 0.17%, while in November 2018 - 0.11%; amount of the VAT of such suspended TI / CA in relation to registered was 0.78 % (November 2019 - 0.57%). That is, the Tax service began to block less tax invoices; meanwhile the efficiency has increased significantly.