Head of the State Tax Service Ruslan Kravchenko: Rate of blocking tax invoices has decreased to 0.5% since the beginning of year
Rate of blocking tax invoices has decreased to 0.5% since the beginning of year. Almost 5.7 thousand business entities have been excluded from the list of risky ones. This was announced by Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko during a conference call with heads of territorial bodies of the State Tax Service.
"These are the first results of changes that the State Tax Service of Ukraine is implementing. After all, we have numerous complaints from business about unfounded blocking of invoices and their inclusion in the risky category. We are not stopping there. Today, I instructed heads of regional directorates to organize consultation centers by the end of week, where business will receive all necessary assistance in resolving block of invoices and exclusion from the list of risky ones" - noted Ruslan Kravchenko.
Each of them will have 5-10 specialists who will provide business with explanations regarding:
- work algorithms of monitoring system of tax risks during registration of tax invoices;
- submission of data tables;
- procedures for excluding risky invoices from the list and unblocking them.
"One of the reasons for blocking invoices, especially for enterprises that grow or produce their own products, service providers is a lack of data table. The biggest number of unaccounted tables is in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia regions and Kyiv city. I have instructed all territorial bodies to inform payers about the need to submit data tables by the end of week" – emphasized Ruslan Kravchenko.
Head of the State Tax Service outlines that consideration of risk issues should be comprehensive, therefore, commissions should make decisions only after a comprehensive assessment of the payer’s activities.
"Separate issue is excessive bureaucracy. It reaches absurdity. The payer is forced to submit several hundred pages of documents to the commission, which complicates consideration of cases. Moreover, often these documents do not relate to the implementation of transaction itself or direct activities of the enterprise. And we will put an end to this" – he added.
State Tax Service is also working on regulatory changes to reduce number of blocked invoices.
It is planned to:
improve criteria for unconditional registration and indicators of positive tax history;
simplify mechanism for submitting data tables.
"I will personally check how these changes work in regions in the near future. Business should work comfortably, without unnecessary obstacles and blockages" – summed up Head of the State Tax Service.
