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1. The subject of the dispute is the lawfulness of tax assessment notices by which the controlling authority additionally charged the enterprise with corporate income tax and VAT, classifying the funds received by the enterprise as non-repayable financial assistance.
2. The court established that, following the 2015 tax reform, the object of corporate income taxation is determined based on the financial result according to accounting rules, rather than through the automatic inclusion of repayable financial assistance in income, as was the case previously. The court specifically emphasized that the previous approaches to the taxation of repayable financial assistance (based on the wording of the Tax Code of Ukraine prior to December 31, 2014) had lost their relevance, and it departed from the application of obsolete provisions relied upon by the tax authority. Furthermore, it was established that the funds received by the plaintiff under mandate agreements and debt assignment agreements do not constitute non-repayable assistance, as they were subject to repayment and the statute of limitations had not expired. Regarding other VAT adjustments, the court noted that the tax authority failed to provide any proper evidence to support the violations recorded in the audit report. In accordance with the requirements of the Code of Administrative Judiciary, it is the subject of authority that bears the burden of proving the lawfulness of its decisions, which the tax authority failed to do. Thus, the courts of lower instances rightfully concluded that the plaintiff had no tax debt.
3. The Supreme Court dismissed the tax authority’s cassation appeal and upheld the decisions of the courts of first and appellate instances.
