Pavel Bosnyuk. And the Sweet Life of the Lyceum Named after the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred
Volyn Lyceum sets autumn price record for Ukraine sugar - 39,50 hryvnia per kilo, and even without VAT, and even for wholesale supply for a quarter of a million hryvnia, they write Our money.
…Anyone can go to the store and buy sugar for 36 hryvnias per kilogram. This price includes the cost of packaging the sugar into kilogram bags, shipping it from factories to warehouses, and then to stores, as well as marketing markups. All of this adds to the cost of the product. Therefore, the price also includes a 20% value-added tax. If consumers didn't pay it, sugar would cost one-fifth less—30 hryvnias.
At the same time, there are situations in Ukraine where VAT doesn't arise in the supply chain. This happens when someone buys something from a sole proprietor. In such cases, the government exempts the consumer from the tax. This is done to support small businesses, which ideally should be a hub for the development of the middle class. And that's a good thing.
But it's bad when the privileged status of a sole proprietor is used to rob the state. Remember, state funds in the budget are our money, taxpayers' money. And when a lyceum with the pompous name "Named After the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred" buys sugar for 39,50 hryvnias excluding VAT, that's not just overpaying. It's cynical profiteering, ingrained in the blood.
Bosnyuk. And the sweet life of the Lyceum named after the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred
This is exactly what the Volyn Regional Lyceum with Enhanced Military-Physical Training named after the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred did. On September 12, the lyceum entered into an agreement with individual entrepreneur Yuriy Anatolyevich Melnychuk to supply sugar at UAH 39,50 per kilogram excluding VAT, for a total of UAH 277. This means that if the sugar had been purchased at the store price of UAH 30 excluding VAT, they could have saved approximately a quarter of the price—UAH 70. But they didn't. And so, these tens of thousands of hryvnias became a pleasant profit margin for the entrepreneur, which he can use at his own discretion.
Pavel Bosnyuk refuses to tell journalists where he got the jewelry and currency stolen by the robbers.
For example, he can thank the director of the Lyceum, Pavel Zinovievich Bosnyuk, who has managed the institution since 2000, but in 2017, someone robbed him and stole gold jewelry, expensive watches, and thousands of dollars and euros from his home. Bosnyuk refused to tell reportersWhere did the lyceum director get such valuables? It's also unknown why the car of his daughter, an employee of the local SBU office, was burned, just days before the robbery.
From a tendering perspective, there's another interesting nuance. The Lyceum entered into a negotiated agreement with a private entrepreneur for valuable sugar. That is, it bought as much as it wanted from whomever it wanted, for as much as it wanted. The Lyceum entered into negotiations because not a single bidder was found in Lutsk during the summer open bidding. Neither in August nor in July, when it wanted to buy sugar at 32 hryvnias per kilogram. Were the producers and distributors of Lutsk, the capital of Volyn, one of Ukraine's largest sugar-producing regions, really afraid to gather for an auction held by the father of an SBU officer? So why did the Lyceum enter into another agreement with a favored private entrepreneur, from whom it had already ordered 4,7 million hryvnias worth of meat and sugar over three years?
To understand how Bosnyuk's purchase falls out of context, Nashi Dengi analyzed the largest sugar tenders of September and October across all regions at Prozorro.
It's telling that the leaders, with prices above the store price of 30 hryvnias per kilogram excluding tax, are all sole proprietors, with whom transactions are conducted without VAT. Meanwhile, various taxpaying companies are at the bottom of the table.
"Nashi Dengi" hopes that the "sweet" contract of the Volyn Lyceum named after the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred will be reviewed by competent authorities to identify opportunities to save public funds.
Stop wasting our money!
translation Skelet.Org
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