In 2024, Ukrainians incurred more than 712 thousand new debts. What citizens most often do not pay for

13 January 12:35

In total, the Unified Register of Debtors now contains almost 9 million entries, and last year 712,453 new debts were added to this register. This is reported on the Opendatabot platform, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, the register has grown by almost 2 million debts.

Most often, Ukrainians incur debts due to non-payment of fines for traffic violations. The Register of Debtors has already accumulated a total of 1 million 800 thousand of them, or 21% of the total.

Another 20% are penalties for administrative offenses, amounting to 1.7 million such debts. Collections in favor of the state budget currently account for 18.5% of the total amount of debts, totaling 1.6 million. The fourth position in the register of debtors is occupied by utility bills, which amount to UAH 727 thousand or 8%. More than 21% of debts cannot be classified into any of the above categories.

As for the dynamics of debt growth, there was a 24% increase in the number of property recoveries under enforcement documents – up to 15.6 thousand. Also, the number of confiscations in criminal cases, except for corruption cases, increased by almost 17% to 11.8 thousand.

What about business debts?

In the first 11 months of 2024, according to the Register of Enforcement Proceedings, 25,225 cases were opened due to business tax debts. The State Tax Service intensified this process in 2024. Last year, more enforcement proceedings were opened than in the entire year before last: 25.2 thousand against 22.2 thousand. This is also 22% more than in all of 2021, when 20,600 proceedings were opened.

At the same time, more than 3,000 business tax debts have been pending since 2021.

Most of the companies from which the Tax Service is trying to collect debts are registered in Kyiv – 5.7 thousand, or 23% of the total number of last year’s enforcement proceedings. Next is Dnipropetrovs’k region, where 4.5 thousand businesses are registered (18%). Zaporizhzhia region is also among the top three debtors, with 1.3 thousand or 5.2% of tax debts.

Василевич Сергій
Editor