Absence of needless management units is essential during the reorganization into a single legal entity – Oleksiy Lyubchenko

Chairman of the State Tax Service of Ukraine Oleksiy Lyubchenko in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency told about structural changes in the State Tax Service during transition to a single legal entity.

New regional structure of territorial bodies has already been approved. All regional departments, the Large Taxpayers Office and the Information and Reference Department are in the process of liquidation as legal entities.

“The new structure envisages 31 territorial bodies, of which 5 are regional service centers for large taxpayers: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro. The largest staff rotation awaits Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro, as well as Lviv and Odessa. In Kyiv and Kharkiv there are the fewest issues, there are no global staff rotations yet, at least within the Large Taxpayers Office.” – stated Chairman of the STS. 

Specifically, Oleksiy Lyubchenko emphasized that absence of needless management units is essential during the STS’s reorganization into a single legal entity.

Changes also affected central apparatus of the State Tax Service. There will be newly created the Risk management department in the structure, which will deal exclusively with the VAT and income tax issues. The Tax investigation department will also be created.

“It is essentially a management company of five regional service centers for large taxpayers. Its task is to identify patterns and find deviations. It will be exclusively an analytical unit which will be fully involved in international taxation.” – stated Oleksiy Lyubchenko.