In 2025, Internet providers significantly increased their tax payments against the backdrop of inspections, coming out of the shadows, and changing the status of individual entrepreneurs. At the same time, every seventh employer in the industry declares wages below the minimum.
In 2025, Internet providers significantly increased their tax payments against the backdrop of inspections, coming out of the shadows, and changing the status of individual entrepreneurs. At the same time, every seventh employer in the industry declares wages below the minimum.
In the first five months of 2025, Ukrainian internet providers paid UAH 2.55 billion in taxes to the budget. This is 50% more than in the same period in 2024. This was reported by the head of the parliamentary finance committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, on his Telegram channel .
The personal income tax (PIT) showed the greatest growth: revenues increased by 80,4%, namely from UAH 0.4 to UAH 0.7 billion. Value added tax (VAT) increased by 56,1% and amounted to UAH 1.4 billion. Profit tax also increased by +29.4% (UAH 0.3 billion versus UAH 0.2 billion in 2024).
Progress is particularly noticeable in the VAT structure: the level of its payment has risen from 8,7% to 9,35%, which indicates partial de-shadowing of payments.
Separately, a trend towards legalization of salaries is recorded. According to the results of the first quarter of 2025, the average salary in the industry was UAH 17,160 compared to UAH 12,020 in the first quarter of 2024. At the same time, according to tax data, another 14,7% of companies declare salaries lower than the minimum, which is a reason for further verification.
The situation with 5,573 payers who were on the simplified system in 2024 was also analyzed. Among them:
As noted, the market is showing positive developments, but a significant portion of players still operate in the «gray zone.» Therefore, the most problematic of them are currently being actively investigated by the Bureau of Economic Security (BES).
The Internet services market in Ukraine has traditionally been a segment with a high level of shadowing. Due to a wide network of small local providers and cash payments, a significant portion of revenues did not make it into official reporting.
Recall, we previously wrote about how Lanet overtook Kyivstar in terms of 10G-PON coverage in Kyiv: over 100 thousand subscribers connected. The provider launched the first segment of the XGPON network in the capital and plans to expand it by another 50 thousand connections by the fall.
