Precarpathian enterprises inflicted a two-billion-yen blow on the budget – State Service of Ukraine

The State Tax Service in the Ivano-Frankivsk region reported that local taxpayers have debts of over 2 billion hryvnias. Over the past six months, thanks to lawsuits in the courts, debts amounting to 222 million hryvnias have been partially repaid.

During the first six months of this year, tax officials filed 665 claims against legal entities, individuals, and sole proprietors for a total of 202.7 million hryvnias.

Of the total number of claims filed, 190 were successful, which allowed them to collect 73.1 million hryvnias.

During the first half of the year, employees of the regional State Tax Service Department issued more than 4 thousand payment instructions for a total of over 1.2 billion hryvnias, based on which the courts made decisions in favor of the tax service.

1.6 million hryvnias were written off from debtors’ bank accounts, and 56.6 thousand hryvnias were withdrawn from cash. An additional 4.9 million hryvnias were received through work with bankrupt enterprises.

Also, based on court decisions, municipally owned enterprises reduced their tax debt to the budget by 800 thousand hryvnias.

Thus, based on the actions of the State Tax Service in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the first half of 2025, 222 million hryvnias were received by the consolidated budget, of which 116.3 million went to the state budget.

As of July 1, 2025, the total amount of tax debt decreased by 64.8 million hryvnias.

Currently, there is no accurate information about enterprises that evade taxes and the reasons for this phenomenon.

Given this situation, the head of the Ivano-Frankivsk branch of the NGO “Stop Corruption”, Vitaliy Chornenky, noted that he is refraining from commenting for the time being until the reasons for the debts become known:

“If enterprises simply do not pay because they do not want to, this is unacceptable, especially in times of war, when the country needs funds.”