Auditors identified losses of 20 million and risks amounting to another 26 million in the Tairivska community

The Tairov community in the Odesa region lost nearly 20 million hryvnias due to financial violations, and approximately 26 million more in budget funds and property are at risk. Among the issues identified by auditors were underpaid land taxes, unused medical equipment, and the risk of illegal alienation of the arboretum.

This was reported by the Southern Office of the State Audit Service.

A significant portion of the violations concerned land legislation. In particular, because the local government failed to ensure proper control over the use of municipally owned land by nine land users in the town of Tairove and the village of Lymanka, the budget lost nearly 12 million hryvnias. These funds could have been collected as rent, provided that the necessary legal documents were in place.

Experts found that the “Tairivskyi Consultative and Diagnostic Center” (a municipal non-profit enterprise) purchased medical equipment worth 1.5 million hryvnias using local budget funds in 2024. The equipment has not been used for over two years. 

In addition, 13 land plots with a total area of 18.9 hectares were identified as unused. These could be leased out, which would bring nearly 2.2 million hryvnias to the local budget.

The community budget lost an additional 750,000 hryvnias due to late rent payments, as the lease agreement did not provide for penalties in such cases. 

Due to the lack of an approved land-use plan, the failure to establish the boundaries of the"Tairivsky Dendropark" of local significance, and the failure to enter information about it into the State Land Cadastre, conditions and risks have arisen for illegal alienation totaling 17.8 million hryvnias.

As a result of ineffective planning of budget funds by the Department of Humanitarian Policy of the Tairovsky Settlement Council, savings in the payroll fund were artificially generated, leading to the diversion of financial resources which could have been allocated to other priority needs of educational institutions in the amount of over 2.2 million hryvnias.

Previously, specialists from the Southern Office of the State Audit Service completed a state audit of the budget of the Dalnytsia Village Council in the Odesa region. It was established that the local government failed to ensure proper control over the use of municipally owned land, which resulted in a shortfall in budget revenues. In particular, as a result of the use of land plots without title documents, the budget lost 100% of potential revenue, specifically: rent totaling more than 4.2 million hryvnias.

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