In Ukraine, efforts are actively being made to collect tax debts from businesses.

The State Tax Service is actively collecting tax debts from businesses. This year, more executive proceedings have been opened than in the entire previous year: 25,200 compared to 22,200. This is also 22% more than in all of 2021 when 20,600 proceedings were opened, according to Opendatabot.

More than 3,000 tax debts from businesses date back to 2021.

Until recently, it was impossible to check the company you are working with: since May 2022, the State Tax Service of Ukraine has not published information on the presence of tax debts in companies. At the same time, cooperation with such businesses can be risky due to possible account blocking and asset seizures.

The largest number of companies from which the Tax Service is trying to collect debts is registered in Kyiv - 5,700 or 23% of the total number this year. Next is Dnipropetrovsk region, where 4,500 such businesses are registered (18%). Closing the top three is Zaporizhzhia region: 1,300 or 5.2% of tax debts.

Among all companies in Ukraine, the most tax debts are currently owed by the sanatorium 'Zbruch' - 77 proceedings, almost all of which were opened this year. Next is the Myrhorod Bread Factory No. 1 with 70 debts due to unpaid taxes. Closing the top three debtors is the company 'Lers' with 44 active proceedings.

Tax debt in a company may arise due to unpaid taxes, violations of declaration deadlines, etc. Consequently, executive proceedings for the recovery of debt in favor of the State Tax Service are tax debts that have undergone judicial recovery but were not voluntarily paid by the debtor.