A Transcarpathian company was covering the illegal activities of third parties

– The Main Office of the Ministry of Income in Transcarpathian region is checking entities that carry out imports into Ukraine and are suspected of non-payment of taxes and fees. In the course of control and verification measures regarding one of such entities, it was revealed that the company had been founded without the purpose of doing business by a citizen who later was its manager, at the request of another citizen – the experts of the tax and customs audit department informed.

In particular, they note, the Transcarpathian company was not conducting business operations, but was only used as a cover for illegal activities of third parties relating to the importation of goods into the customs territory of Ukraine and formation of a tax credit for other entities totaling in almost 2 million hryvnias of VAT.

"The Ministry of Income have enough tools to monitor the activity of risky businesses, particularly the Monitoring center. This powerful tool is designed for analytical and informational support of deshadowing processes using the latest solutions in the field of IT. It automatically processes all data of tax reports and tax returns, documents related to foreign trade, other sources that enable to detect signs of unofficial activity, to follow the movement of goods from the border to the final consumer, the movement of fictitious tax credit from the "producer" to the "customer", timely and with high probability. The system of risk identification is fully automated and eliminates human error, and therefore any corrupt acts," – the department of tax and customs audits of the Main Office of the Ministry of Income in Transcarpathian region reported.