Tax data of Ukrainians will be stored in Poland

Tax data of Ukrainians will be stored in Poland

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to conclude an agreement between the State Tax Service and a Polish government agency on the temporary placement of STS information resources on the territory of Poland.

The relevant decision was made on 19 January 2024, according to the minutes of the Cabinet of Ministers, an extract of which is available to the EP.

“To agree with the proposal of the Ministry of Finance and the State Tax Service to conclude an agreement with the State Tax Service for the period of martial law in Ukraine with an institution determined by the Government of the Republic of Poland on the provision of services for the temporary placement of state information resources of the State Tax Service in a mobile data processing center located on the territory of the Republic of Poland,” the excerpt says from the minutes of the government meeting.

As Danylo Getmantsev, Chairman of the Tax Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, explained to the EP, we are talking about storing on the territory of Poland only copies of tax data of Ukrainians, and not a complete transfer of the State Tax Service databases to the territory of Poland.

“The work on the corresponding decision began in the spring of 2022. Then the work died down somewhat, but now it has been finalized into a final decision,” Getmantsev explained.

He added that the decision was made for security reasons. At the same time, it is not related to the state’s intentions to store the register of military personnel on the territory of one of the NATO countries.