Problem

The process of submitting information to the Unified State Register of Declarations of Officials Authorized to Carry out Functions of State or Local Self-Government has been cumbersome for a long time due to a number of reasons. The main ones were: technical problems that disrupted the stable operation of the Register; the lack of awareness of declarants of the legal requirements and the procedure for filling out declarations; the need for declarants to collect a large amount of data; insufficient quality and stability of legislation.
This problem leads to a large number of mistakes in filling out declarations by declarants, widespread cases of missed deadlines for submission of declarations, and a lack of understanding by declarants of the essence of legislative provisions and the procedure for their implementation.
It should be noted that this problem has been partly resolved. In particular, the Unified State Register of Declarations of Officials Authorized to Carry out Functions of State or Local Self-Government as a software and hardware complex has been modernized and moved to the premises of the National Agency. Significant steps have also been taken to facilitate and simplify the procedure for filling out the declaration, in particular by introducing the following innovations: the possibility to change the type of declaration without submitting a new declaration; the ability to use an integrated directory with new names of population centers, territorial communities, and districts; automatic filling of fields with the name of legal entities based on their code in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Organizations of Ukraine; a directory of vehicle makes and models has been integrated; a drop-down list of the most common objects of declaration has been introduced, which was formed based on the results of the analysis of declarations for previous periods; the possibility to specify a non-existent cryptocurrency has been eliminated; the input of bank account details has been simplified; it is now possible to review the data contained in other registers using the “Data for Declaration” function.
Another relevant reason for the problem is the changeability and unpredictability of legislation pertaining to declarations. In particular, during the existence of e-declaration functionality, the legislator has repeatedly changed the list of declarants and the information to be included in the declaration. Such changes were mostly made without a prior broad discussion and did not provide for sufficient transition periods for adaptation. This resulted in numerous mistakes made by declarants when filling out declarations, failure to submit or late submission of declarations, and so forth.