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Ramazan
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Re: accounting company of such a size that doesn't care

Tax office in the Ukraine stopped accepting "paper" tax declarations around 2012 and only takes them in digital format with crypto signature. The law was instated by them, but software was none of their concern, so several underqualified companies appeared on the scene with their proprietary paid accounting/tax "suites" or subscriptions. There are some s/w with limited functionality which are free, but they are closed source too. No opensource tax software exist in the Ukraine that's able to send tax declarations in the format as required by law, and this is a root of the problem.

Tax office does have a web site, but they don't accept tax declarations via web. You have to install closed source s/w to be able to send your tax declaration. And each time you need to do it (every year or every quarter-year), you must update your tax s/w first because some forms have been changed or whatever.

Basically proprietary s/w with mandatory quarterly update cycles was forced onto users by the Ukrainian govt, and the govt found nothing better than to lay blame on proprietary s/w devs when shit hit the fan.

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