The Temporary Investigative Commission has revealed a discrepancy between the number of vehicles sold and Ministry of Internal Affairs data
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance Danylo Hetmantsev has announced the existence of a scheme involving the illegal generation of tax credits in the automotive market, estimated at 9.1 billion UAH annually. Preliminary data suggests that perpetrators are utilizing imported vehicles to minimize tax liabilities through the resale of tax credits. This was reported by Minfin, according to the portal PromPolitInform.
The core of the identified scheme involves conducting fictitious operations following the import of vehicles into Ukraine. According to Danylo Hetmantsev, vehicles are imported and subsequently sold for cash. The VAT tax credit generated during import is not used for its intended purpose but is instead resold to other business entities to artificially reduce their tax liabilities.
Scale of shadow operations
Expert estimates indicate that approximately 800 million UAH in illegal tax credits may be generated monthly through such schemes. Currently, state regulatory bodies, specifically the State Tax Service, have already documented illegal operations amounting to 1.3 billion UAH, representing over 14% of the projected annual volume of such violations.
Discrepancies between MIA data and listings
As part of an audit conducted by the Temporary Investigative Commission, the activities of three networks were analyzed for the first half of 2026. Specifically, GLOBAL AUTO LOGISTIC posted 8,784 listings, with 1,039 vehicles marked as sold, whereas official Ministry of Internal Affairs records showed only 131 sales, with a tax payment of 731,000 UAH.
A similar situation was observed in other networks. For instance, BOSS AUTO had 511 vehicles marked as sold out of 4,485 listings, yet Ministry of Internal Affairs documents recorded only three sales, with tax payments totaling 1.06 million UAH. In the case of PAN AMERICAN, 139 vehicles out of 2,880 listings were marked as sold, even though Ministry of Internal Affairs data did not register a single official sale, with tax payments of only 31,700 UAH.
Countermeasures
The Chairman of the Finance Committee emphasized that the State Tax Service and the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine possess the necessary tools to detect such abuses. These agencies are capable of tracking the actual movement of vehicles and the chains of tax credit formation, which should help minimize the proliferation of such schemes in the future.
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