Main points
- Individual entrepreneurs need to have a single tax payer statement, which should be updated quarterly to confirm simplified system status.
- You also need to have a few more documents that will protect you from fines and unnecessary expenses.
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Many entrepreneurs believe that filing tax returns and paying taxes on time is enough to ensure safe work. However, a sole proprietorship also needs to have several documents that will help save money and even protect against penalties.
What documents do individual entrepreneurs need?
These are applications submitted to the tax office to obtain certain documents. In practice, they actually protect entrepreneurs during bank audits, lawyer Bohdan Yankiv reported on his blog.
- Application No. 1 – single tax payer extract
A single tax payer's statement is the main document confirming that an entrepreneur works on a simplified system and to which group he belongs.
Experts advise updating the statement at least once a quarter. This may seem like a small thing, but in practice, there are situations when an entrepreneur's status as a single tax payer is revoked, and he finds out about it only a few months later – along with fines.
- Application No. 2 – connecting electronic correspondence with the tax office
This application is needed so that all correspondence from the tax office arrives directly to the entrepreneur's electronic account. This includes fines, notices of inspections, assessments of taxes on property, land or cars, as well as various requests from the tax office.
After signing such a document, paper letters virtually stop arriving, and all information can be viewed online. This is especially convenient for those who rarely check regular mail or have problems with it.
- Statement No. 3 – income reference report
An individual entrepreneur in any group can submit a so-called reference income report. This document simply records the current amount of the entrepreneur's earnings.
In practice, such a certificate often comes in handy. For example, when a bank asks to confirm declared income during financial monitoring, or in the case of large purchases or investments – to confirm the origin of funds.
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What else do self-employed individuals need to know?
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Individual entrepreneurs receive tax debt notices, which may contain outdated data, which should be checked. An individual entrepreneur is liable for debts with all his property, but the law protects a single dwelling if it is a place of permanent residence and does not exceed social area standards.
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KVED 63.99 for individual entrepreneurs includes the provision of other information services, such as information search services and media monitoring. This code is universal and common in various areas of economic activity, including marketing and consulting.
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For an activity to be considered entrepreneurial and require registration as an individual entrepreneur, it must be systematic, that is, occur at least three times a year. Entrepreneurial activity without opening an individual entrepreneur is punishable by a fine of 17,000 to 34,000 hryvnias.
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Starting in 2026, the state has increased the size of microgrants for starting a business based on the number of jobs created. The updates include separate rules for military personnel and their families, including increasing the maximum grant amount to UAH 1 million for creating four jobs.