In accordance with Article 269 of the Tax Code of Ukraine (hereinafter – the TCU) land tax payers are owners of land plots, land shares (parcels), land users to whom, in accordance with the law, state-owned and municipally-owned land plots have been granted for use on a permanent basis, and rent payers – land users (tenants) of state-owned and municipally-owned land plots under lease terms. This information is provided by the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Lviv Region.
The objects subject to land tax are land plots owned, land shares (parcels) owned, state- and municipally-owned land plots held under permanent use rights, and state- and municipally-owned land plots granted for use under lease terms (Article 270 of the Tax Code of Ukraine).
The tax is payable by individuals within 60 days of the date of delivery of the tax notice-decision (paragraph 287.5 of Article 287 of the Tax Code of Ukraine).
As of 1 December 2023, the territorial bodies of the State Tax Service had issued over 7.7 million tax assessment notices regarding land tax to individuals, amounting to 3.9 billion hryvnias. At the same time, individual entrepreneurs have declared tax liabilities for land tax amounting to 0.85 billion hryvnias.
We also wish to inform you that tax legislation grants taxpayers the right to submit a written or electronic application via electronic means of communication (in compliance with the requirements set out in paragraph 42.4 of Article 42 of the Tax Code of Ukraine) to the tax authority at their place of registration with the tax authorities or at the location of the land plots, including those to which an individual is entitled as the owner of a land share (parcel), to verify data regarding the size of areas and the number of land plots and land shares (parcels) owned and/or used by the taxpayer, the right to benefit from tax relief, taking into account the provisions of paragraphs 281.4 and 281.5 of Article 281 of the Tax Code of Ukraine, the rate of land tax and the amount of land tax charged.
In the event of discrepancies between the data of the controlling authorities and the data confirmed by the land tax payer on the basis of the originals of the relevant documents or duly certified copies of such documents, in particular documents evidencing ownership or entitlement to a tax concession, as well as in the event of a change in the land tax rate, the controlling authority to which the land tax payer has applied shall, within ten working days, recalculate the amount of tax (paragraph 286.5 of Article 286 of the Tax Code of Ukraine).
Source: Main Department of the State Tax Service in Lviv Region.