The Ministry of Revenues and Duties ( uk, Міністерство доходів і зборів України) was a government ministry of

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. The ministry was created on 24 December 2012 by a Decree of

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and it merged the country's State Tax Service and the State Customs Service. Its first and only minister was Oleksandr Klymenko. On 1 March 2014 the ministry was liquidated. Its agencies were transferred to the

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. On May 27, 2014 it was announced that the ministry will be reorganized into the State Fiscal Service and will be subordinated to the Ministry of Finances.

Corruption case

Since 31 May 2014 Klymenko is wanted by the

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for the creation of

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procedures to significantly reducing the customs value of certain companies. An alleged example of this is the setting up of non-existing firms to whittle tax obligations. This and other alleged crimes are to have costed the state budget of Ukraine ₴6 billion./(website has automatic

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LIGA Klymenko has denied all allegations against him and has called them "groundless".AP IMPACT: Wide scale Ukrainian scam intercepted billions in taxes using fake companies

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(June 10, 2014)

References

External links

Ministry of Transportation and Communication
(Archive) 2012 establishments in Ukraine 2014 disestablishments in Ukraine Revenues and Duties Ministries established in 2012 Ministries disestablished in 2014

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