"The Tax Service has become the enemy of business. And this needs to change," Head of the State Tax Service on New Country

For the second time since the launch of the joint project of LB.ua and EFI Group New Country, the expert discussion is held in a special format - a public interview. The first such guest was the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andriy Sybiha. On 29 April, the newly appointed head of the State Tax Service, Ruslan Kravchenko (former head of the Kyiv Regional Administration), agreed to answer questions from the New Country participants.

‘Our project is about a new country, about what it should be like to be strong and subjective, which is what we are fighting for now in this brutal war. For me, this discussion platform is connected with what has been ‘broken’ in the country, what is wrong, why we have come to such ineffective governance,' said Ihor Liski, project partner and chairman of the supervisory board of EFI Group, introducing the main guest.

‘Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are maintained primarily by Ukrainian taxes. It may happen that Ukraine will be left without or with a small part of international assistance. Will it be able to maintain the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the war? This will directly depend on whether business and all Ukrainians will be able to pay taxes, whether we will be able to make the administration of these taxes transparent and generally build proper trust between the state and society,’ the businessman said, explaining the choice of the topic for this discussion panel and the invitation of Ruslan Kravchenko.

‘When I came to work in the tax service, I immediately became an enemy for business. And we have to change this,’ said Ruslan Kravchenko. ‘There are already results, but I am not entirely satisfied with them,’ he said during a public interview.

What problems does the newly appointed head of the State Tax Service see, what vision does he have for solving them, and what has he already managed to do in four months of work? Read the full text of the interview with the Head of the State Tax Service on LB.ua soon to find out what other questions representatives of large, medium and small businesses, entrepreneurs, MPs, members of the public and experts asked the newly appointed head of the State Tax Service.