Nearly 100,000 taxpayers have filed their tax returns

As of July 2026, 99,087 filers had hidden 445,536 declarations from public access. 

This information is available on the OpenDataBot platform.

As noted, although the option to classify declarations as confidential was only introduced at the end of 2023, the majority of documents that disappeared from the public registry were those submitted before the start of the full-scale war.

Specifically, 94,968 of the hidden declarations were filed in 2016, and another 72,068 were filed in 2020.

The National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) reported that it does not maintain separate statistics on the number of declarations or declarants whose data has been hidden from public access.

The percentage of hidden declarations for 2016 is 9%, and for 2020, it is 8%. By comparison, the percentage of hidden declarations during the period of the full-scale invasion is about 2%.

On average, each declarant has withheld four to five of their declarations. It is worth noting that if a person is granted the right to withhold declarations, all of their declarations may be removed from public access at once—regardless of the reporting year for which they were filed.

The NACP noted that the agency does not verify the validity of the reasons for closing declarations. It merely acts on requests from government agencies whose leaders initiate the removal of documents from the registry. The declarant cannot independently either restrict access to or make their declaration public again. Only the agency that previously submitted the request to restrict access can restore the declaration to public access.

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More than half of all declarants with restricted declarations are members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine—50,200 people. Another 16,400 declarants work for the National Police.

The top five also include representatives of city councils—2,500, the State Emergency Service—2,500, and the State Tax Service—1,300 declarants.

The mechanism for removing declarations from public access was introduced after the resumption of electronic filing at the end of 2023. It was implemented due to the risks that full-scale war posed to military personnel, law enforcement officers, and other officials.

If the publication of a declaration could jeopardize the safety of an individual or their family, the document may be temporarily removed from the public registry. The declarant cannot do this themselves.

Incidentally, theincome declarations of Oleg Kipper, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, and some of his deputies remain confidential.

The Center for Public Investigations twice requested informationfrom the Odesa Regional Military Administration regarding the salaries of top officials and was denied both times; however, in April 2026, some departments did provide data for 2025.

Ірина Глухова