The tax authority will automatically receive information about border crossings
The State Tax Service of Ukraine and the State Border Guard Service have implemented an automated data exchange between their information systems. As a result, the agencies will have mutual electronic access to the necessary information without the need for manual data exchange.
The relevant agreement and protocol were signed by Lesya Karnaukh, Head of the State Tax Service, and Valeriy Vavryniuk, Acting Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
“Previously, the tax service requested data via letters. Border guards had to manually process each letter and prepare responses. Now the process is automated. A State Tax Service employee submits a request electronically, and the system automatically generates a response in a matter of seconds without requiring staff to perform any manual tasks,” the agency explained.
How the tax authority will use the data received
Information on border crossings will be used in conjunction with other data, specifically for:
determining the tax residency of individuals, including verifying stays in Ukraine exceeding 183 days per year to ensure the correct calculation of tax liabilities and prevent double taxation;
identifying fictitious transactions where a company’s financial documents or reports are signed by an executive who was outside Ukraine at the time of signing.
At the same time, the new mechanism provides for a number of security measures:
information is exchanged through the National Confidential Communications System at the central level;
each request is made only with respect to a single individual or a single vehicle and only when there are legal grounds;
each request is signed with a qualified electronic signature by a specific State Tax Service official and stamped with an electronic timestamp;
all user actions are recorded in electronic audit logs, which prevents unauthorized or anonymous access to information.
This was reported by the press service of the State Tax Service of Ukraine.
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