Large-scale businesses numbering 1,152 Ukrainian companies should account for over 70% of tax payments of the national budget's general fund in 2011, according to Vitaliy Zakharchenko, the chief of Ukraine's State Tax Service.
"Of course, our attention will be focused mainly on big businesses, on transparence of their work," he said at a briefing in Chernihiv on Wednesday.
According to him, the point at issue are inspections in the state procurement sphere and the organization of tenders. "Yet, it will be done only within the tax service’s authority," he added.
Zakharchenko said that it is important that the tax police whose major task is to secure budget receipts participate in inspections at large companies.
"Today the [tax] police have completely different tasks," he said. "We’re aimed at revealing crimes related to foreign economic activity, Internet technologies, for example, in the insurance and reinsurance sector, with money withdrawals abroad, as well as at identifying new methods of committing [financial] crimes."
