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🛃The next topic for the Temporary Special Commission (TSC) is cargo. More precisely, smuggling through “cargo companies”.
I’ll explain simply.
📲 We called several cargo companies. The terms were the same everywhere: they give you a number for the bags, they don’t ask for documents, 7 dollars per kilo by rail, 12 - by plane, customs clearance “turnkey.” There will also be no customs documents — the goods go “off the books.” And officially, in your name — for an extra fee of 8-10%. So the “black” option is standard here, and the honest one is a paid extra….
💰 Honest businesses pay for this: legally imported fabric is more expensive by 10-20%. And they are checked to the last penny. Meanwhile the cargo companies operate with a sign on the storefront.
For perspective: losses to the budget from this scheme alone are at least 30 billion UAH per year (a very conservative estimate). For context, that’s 3,5 times more than what they want to get from canceling the parcel privilege.
🤦♂️ By the way, as soon as the market learned about the TSC, some signs disappeared within 4 days. The rules of operation — no))
📑 The state has known about the problem for many years, but hasn’t done much.....
💁♂️ Although there was a tool. In 2023-2024 the tax and customs services had a joint cabinet that blocked 16,6 billion of fictitious VAT — it caught cases like a branded coat being cleared for 53 hryvnias, while sold for 21 500. In June the Committee asked to reinstate it. By the end of September — it hadn’t started working.
🕵️♂️ At the TSC we will examine three schemes:
▪️cargo without documents
▪️underdeclaring price at customs: for a kilogram of fabric somewhere they pay 1,5 dollars, and somewhere 26 kopecks
▪️“relabeling” the goods: they import knitwear, but sell it as “fabric for waterproofing”
✊ It works: after our TSCs on cars, the scheme with fake certificates was broken. The market itself said: “thanks to the TSC this issue is suspended.” And the State will receive an additional 2 billion UAH in revenues without raising any taxes.
That’s how we’ll find the money to raise soldiers’ salaries in the Budget)
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