Another Ukrainian online store is being searched

Yesterday's story with the seizure of the servers of the largest Ukrainian online store Rozetka.ua was not an isolated case. According to LigaBusinessInform , today the security forces are searching the office of the online store Sokol.ua, the second largest online store in Ukraine. At the moment, the seizure of documents in the office of the store. It is reported that the search is carried out by tax police officers, but the tax refutes this information. Shop site is still working.

Yesterday, the tax authorities said that they work on several Internet projects, and not only on rozetka.ua, but today a scheme was published on the tax page on Facebook, according to which tax authorities believe that online stores evaded taxation.

UPD: As the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported at 18:12, the leadership of Rozetka.ua agreed to compensate the damage caused to the state and, according to part 4 of article 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, can be exempted from criminal liability. Tax incriminates owners of the "Socket" tax evasion amounting to more than 7 million hryvnia (slightly less than a million dollars).

UPD2: Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov on his Facebook page writes :

Recently, I had a meeting with the participation of the head of the Tax Service of Ukraine, Klimenka, and we agreed with him that the Tax Service will significantly intensify its work on reaching a tax compromise for entrepreneurs and significantly reduce the tax pressure on business.

UPD3: It turned out that the search was conducted not by the tax department, but by the Economic Crime Control Department (MEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
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UPD4: The news agency segodnya.ua reported on Friday evening that the director of the Rosette, Vladislav Chechetkin, knows nothing that he allegedly agreed to pay a tax of 7 million hryvnias and was outraged that the tax agency demanded to pay money without a court decision. “Such issues in civilized countries are solved by lawyers in court, and not by forceful seizure,” he says. On his Facebook page, he also writes that yesterday they tried to detain him on the street.