Hetmantsev estimates budget losses from the shadow grain market at UAH 3 billion a year

State budget losses due to shadow grain operations have decreased to UAH 3 billion per year. About this reported chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Taxation and Finance Danylo Hetmantsev.

"If earlier the state used to lose up to UAH 8 billion annually due to shadow grain transactions, now this figure has dropped to about UAH 3 billion," Hetmantsev wrote on Telegram.

According to the MP, the reduction in the share of the shadow market was facilitated by land market reformthe government has also adopted anti-offshore legislation, and mandatory registration of exporters as VAT payers, export security regime and strengthening control over transfer pricing.

Thus, in 2024, due to the de-shadowing of the agricultural sector, the budget received an additional UAH 3.6 billion, of which UAH 2 billion was VAT.

In 2025 (compared to 2024), revenues amounted to UAH 8.6 billion, of which UAH 1.6 billion was VAT and UAH 0.5 billion was income tax.

• In December 2023, the Chairman of the Tax Committee of the Verkhovna Rada Danylo Hetmantsev in an interview LIGA.net said that half of the exported grain no taxes are paid.
• In May 2024, the Verkhovna Rada adopted laws amending the Tax and Customs Codes to combating "black" grain exports and non-return of foreign exchange earnings.