Consolidated reporting of the single social contribution, personal income tax and military tax: innovations of 2021

Abstract

The essence of the unified social contribution as an important component of the social protection system, and personal income tax and military tax, which, on the one hand, play a significant role in forming the revenue part of the state budget of Ukraine and, on the other, are the part of the costs affect the financial result of the entity is investigated in this paper. The main normative legal acts of Ukraine regulating the procedure of accrual, payment, accounting and reporting of the unified social contribution, personal income tax and military tax are analyzed, separate provisions of the legislation defining amendments to the submission of a single consolidated quarterly reporting of these taxes and payments are highlighted. The peculiarities of displaying information on the unified social contribution by legal entities and private entities-entrepreneurs, that is, all employers, regardless of the taxation system, as a part of quarterly reporting of personal income tax and military tax are formed. The peculiarities of reporting of the unified social contribution by private entities-entrepreneurs on the simplified taxation system by submitting as a part of the Declaration of the single taxpayer (quarterly/annual) Annex 1 with reflection of information about the amount of the unified social contribution paid during the quarter/year are revealed. The peculiarities of displaying information concerning single social contribution by private entities-entrepreneurs on the general system of taxation as a part of the Declaration of property and income are determined. The irrationality of the legislative initiative to combine reporting of the unified social contribution, personal income tax and military tax by different methods and bases of their calculations, various budget allocations of such funds for their payment, different users of information provided in these tax reports, various ways of errors correction and submission of clarifying reports, long period of information processing by state bodies in case of replacing monthly tax period by quarterly one while accruing various types of social benefits, pensions, etc. is substantiated.