The chain of stores did not pay more than UAH 10 million in taxes: BEB exposed the scheme

The Bureau of Economic Security has uncovered a tax evasion scheme by a company that imports tableware and consumer goods and develops a chain of stores. Due to undeclared income, the state budget has underpaid more than UAH 10.6 million in income tax.

According to the investigation, during 2021–2025, company officials concluded contracts for the purchase and sale of goods with individual entrepreneurs.

The total value of such transactions exceeded UAH 58.9 million.

How the scheme worked

After the transactions were carried out, debt forgiveness agreements were concluded between the parties. As a result, the company was actually freed from the need to pay accumulated debt.

However, the company did not include the amount of forgiven accounts payable in its income in its tax reporting for 2025.

Accordingly, these funds were not taken into account when calculating income tax.

BEB established that as a result of such actions, the state budget received more than 10.6 million UAH less.

The chief accountant was informed of the suspicion

The chief accountant of the enterprise was informed of the suspicion under Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – intentional tax evasion in especially large amounts.

At the same time, during the pre-trial investigation, the enterprise fully compensated the losses caused to the state.

More than 10.6 million UAH were returned to the budget.

The name of the enterprise is not specified in the material.