“I am coming at you” – the Volyn authorities and the tax administration warned unscrupulous taxpayers. Officially, the fight against income concealment is called “changing the format of cooperation between government and business.” The reason for the authorities’ threats is the catastrophic state of affairs with the collection of certain types of taxes in the region. Tax officials inform that in the last [period] the budget received 14 million 400 thousand hryvnias in VAT from the region, while claims for reimbursement were filed amounting to 22 and a half million. In June, the level of profit tax payments fell fourfold, and the chief tax official of Volyn - Mykhailo Lemishchak - suspected that the level of artificial loss-making of enterprises had quadrupled over six months. At the same time, fiscal officials are surprised why Volyn reduced tax payments in the first half of the year compared to 2004, since industrial output growth in the region was over 16%. The authorities and tax officials explain this statistic as follows: supposedly, after the new government came in, businessmen’s attitude toward paying taxes also changed. They simply can not pay and the new post-revolutionary officials will not punish them for it. Consequently, the tax administration prepared analytical reports on each large enterprise and calculated the projected amounts they must pay to the budget under the existing rates of production growth and market conditions. And the authorities, in the person of governor Volodymyr Bondar, warned potential non-payers that if they do not meet these forecasts, they will continue the old “forceful” traditions of extracting taxes.