Licensing of the fuel turnover: results of February 2020

Press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, published 04 March 2020 at 15:08 Chapter: News

During January-February 2020, the State Tax Service conducted 472 audits of the gas station networks aimed at detection of the tax law violations and establishment of operating illegal gas stations.

A number of violations were detected at 58 sites and penalties for 6.9 million UAH (0.5 million UAH in the process of application) have already been applied. Another 40 sites have been dismantled.

STS issued 10131 licenses for conducting business activity in sphere of the fuel turnover, including 135 for the wholesale trade, 681 for the retail trade and 9317 for storage during first 2 months of 2020.

If 1700 licenses were issued in January, than 8431 have already been issued in February, that is, during this period a number of issued licenses has increased almost in 5 times. At the same time, there is termination of activity of business entities that violate the rules for conducting activity in sphere of the fuel turnover, thus 351 licenses of such business were revoked in February 2020.

Such dynamics testify about effectiveness of the counteraction against shadow markets conducted by the tax and law enforcement agencies, as well as by the Government and the Prime Minister.

State Tax Service of Ukraine is grateful to the taxpayers for heard message on the joint interaction of the state authority with the taxpayer regarding the legalization and transparency of business in the fuel market.