The labor collective of OJSC "Lutsk Automobile Plant" is outraged by the actions of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, the LuAZ press bureau reported. The employees are especially dissatisfied with the statements of its leadership about alleged violations of tax legislation discovered at the enterprise and demand that law enforcement agencies and the prosecutor's office put an end to the "arbitrariness" of the fiscal bodies, which "paralyzes the work of one of the leaders of domestic automobile manufacturing."
Since September 4 of the current year, a tax inspection has been ongoing at the Lutsk Automobile Plant. To date, the management of the enterprise has not been provided with any final act of the tax inspection of the enterprise, nor any interim acts of this inspection, the LuAZ press bureau claims. "Despite this, the leadership of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, in the person of the deputy head of the STA Yuriy Hryb, has taken the liberty of declaring allegedly discovered facts of tax evasion at LuAZ and, moreover, that in the near future a "criminal case will be opened against the plant's management under the article "tax evasion," and possibly under other articles as well," the statement reads.
According to the head of the LuAZ press bureau, Yaroslav Andrushko, there is a substitution of concepts and distortion of facts. In particular, in that the enterprise is accused of "non-core exports" (at the press conference, Yuriy Hryb cited an example of a deal involving the export of equipment for monitoring pressure in a gas pipeline, worth 90 million hryvnias), whereas the mentioned operations contradict neither the legislation nor the LuAZ charter, and have already been checked this year by employees of the Tax Administration, LuAZ claims. The enterprise also claims that over the past three years LuAZ has never once applied to the STA bodies with a request for VAT reimbursement from export operations, contrary to what deputy head of the STA Yuriy Hryb reported.
"In this situation, the management of the Lutsk Automobile Plant reserves the right to file a lawsuit against the leadership of the STA over the facts of slander. And draws the public's attention to the obvious bias of the actions of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine. According to available information, having found no violations in LuAZ's work during the inspection by the Lutsk tax administration, the STA leadership is preparing a "landing force" of employees from the central apparatus to organize a repeat inspection of the enterprise," the statement reads.