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Tax Authorities Demanded Tax Declaration For 10 Years From Journalist's Wife

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Tax Authorities Demanded Tax Declaration For 10 Years From Journalist's Wife
KANSTANTSIN ZHUKOUSKI
PHOTO: RADIO SVABODA

Kanstantsin Zhukouski considers the actions of the tax inspectorate as a political pressure.

On demand of the local tax inspectorate, Homel freelance journalist Kanstantsin Zhukouski has annually filled in the assets and income declaration since 2008. Now the tax authorities ask his wife to submit the declaration for the last ten years. Kanstantsin Zhukouski regards it as political pressure and persecution for his journalistic activities and active citizenship, BelaPAN writes.

The journalist’s problems with the tax inspectorate began in 2008. Then, after the tax inspectorate’s demand, the court fined Zhukouski for taking money from relatives as a wedding gift. “There were many guests at the wedding, including relatives from Ukraine. And I was given a fine for their gifts – they say, I had to register the money as aid from abroad. That is, I was supposed to put a separate basket for gifts from Ukrainians at the wedding,” – Zhukouski said.

After 2008, he filled in the declaration every year, and in 2016 the tax authorities asked his wife to submit the declaration for the last ten years. “I am not an oligarch, not a public official, do not live off taxpayers, my wife and I earn our money working. But, apparently, there are unequal among equals, as soon as the tax authorities focus on me,” – Kanstantsin Zhukouski said.

The tax authorities calculated the income of his wife for the last ten years and found the excess of expenditure over income in 2006. “At that time, my wife was on maternity leave, we had a joint household. The tax authorities found an excess of 373 rubles, or more than 3.7 million old rubles. This is not a large sum, and we will account for it, of course. It’s just that we are constantly under pressure and supervision, they give us no peace,” – the journalist added.

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