Ukraine's fiscal service to inspect 5,500 taxpayers in 2018

The companies were selected on the basis of risk criteria, including low levels of payment of tax on profit or VAT in a respective industry, negative values of an object of taxation, and discrepancy between tax liabilities and tax credits, it said.

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Based on risk analysis, some 5,100 business entities were included in the tax inspection schedule in 2017, against 4,800 businesses in 2016.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the State Fiscal Service, following audits by its audit units in 2017, additionally charged legal entities with tax liabilities worth UAH 26.6 billion ($932 million).