State Tax Service did not audit Zolkin, Ivanov, and Petrov despite materials received from TSC

State Tax Service refused to conduct audits of three media figures

The State Tax Service did not conduct audits regarding Volodymyr Zolkin, Serhiy Ivanov, and Volodymyr Petrov. As explained by the department, the reason was the absence of necessary tax information on potential violations.

This position was stated by Deputy Head of the State Tax Service Oleksandr Shkuropat during a session of the temporary investigative committee. The head of the TSC, People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak, also drew attention to this.

Official reporting without undeclared income

According to the representative of the tax department, all three individuals are properly registered and submitted reporting documentation on time. Since the internal system of the State Tax Service did not record any profits that were not declared by them, grounds for tax claims did not arise.

The State Tax Service emphasised that existing discrepancies between the financial indicators of media resources and near-zero figures in tax declarations are not sufficient grounds for initiating an audit.

Requests regarding YouTube were not sent

During the session, it became clear that the tax service had never sent official requests to obtain data on income from the YouTube platform. As noted by Yaroslav Zheleznyak, this situation arose despite the fact that the parliamentary TSC had previously transferred to the State Tax Service the full set of necessary data that would have allowed an audit to be conducted.