Олексій Дзюба Hot News 23 January 2025, 09:20

The tax office told how many thousands of "letters of happiness" regarding tax payments were sent to Onlyfans models and how many responses they received.

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The State Tax Service of Ukraine (STS) formed and sent 4,429 information requests (so-called "letters of happiness" containing demands for tax payment) to Ukrainians.

This is reported by "Ekonomichna Pravda" with reference to a request to the tax office.

Of these, 451 citizens filed an income declaration with the State Tax Service. The total amount of foreign income declared by them is UAH 326.1 million. The amount of tax liabilities of these individuals is UAH 63.2 million in personal income tax and military levy.

Information about Ukrainian citizens who received income from the OnlyFans platform (owned by the British company Fenix International Limited) was received in three tranches: September 3 and 19, as well as October 28, 2024. The information concerned citizens' earnings for 2020-2022.

At the same time, the State Tax Service refused to name the exact number of persons about whom they received information from the British tax authorities, noting that the disclosure of this data "poses a threat to the national security of Ukraine" (since the Ukrainian side may violate the terms of the intergovernmental agreement with Britain).

The State Tax Service also reported that it had transferred information about citizens who received income from the OnlyFans platform to “one of the law enforcement agencies,” but declined to name which one. This transfer took place on the basis of a court decision.

As dev.ua previously wrote, the investigating judge of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv granted a group of BEB detectives temporary access to information "about all citizens of Ukraine and other persons residing in the territory of Ukraine who have registered profiles (created accounts) on the OnlyFans platform."

At the same time, according to the Office of Effective Regulation (BRDO), which launched the Pornobarometer project, in the first three quarters of 2024, 1,104 indictments in this category of cases were received by the courts, which is 75% more than in the same period last year.

On December 18, Danylo Hetmantsev, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, stated that so far 350 Onlyfans models in Ukraine have filed tax returns and paid UAH 59.0 million in personal income tax and military duty.

Previously, more than 5,000 Ukrainian models who create paid content on the OnlyFans online platform earned about $123 million in income during 2020–2022.