During the first seven months of 2026, owners of expensive cars directed 214.2 million hryvnias of transport tax to local budgets. In total, 11.5 thousand people made the payment. This was reported by Ukrinform citing the State Tax Service of Ukraine, according to the portal PromPolitInform.
The figure for the current year exceeds the same period of 2025 by 80 million hryvnias. The overall growth in receipts for this type of tax is about 60%.
Leaders in tax payment volumes
The largest amounts to the budgets came from owners of cars registered in the capital, where the sum of payments reached 60.4 million hryvnias. Significant receipts were also recorded in Dnipropetrovsk (18.8 million UAH), Kyiv (16.2 million UAH), and Lviv (16.2 million UAH) regions.
Criteria for vehicle taxation
The transport tax is designed for passenger cars that are no older than five years, with a price exceeding 375 minimum wages as of January 1. The list of vehicles subject to taxation is annually formed by the Ministry of Economy.
When determining the value of a car, its make, model, year of manufacture, fuel characteristics, and engine displacement are taken into account. This year, 1,281 car models have been included in the list of objects subject to taxation.
Illustrative photo: Matti Blume / CC BY-SA 4.0
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