{"id":7295,"date":"2025-11-07T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:37:43","slug":"ukrainian-porn-ban-costing-kiev-millions-in-tax-revenues-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/ukrainian-porn-ban-costing-kiev-millions-in-tax-revenues-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian porn ban costing Kiev millions in tax revenues \u2013 MP"},"content":{"rendered":"
Adult content is illegal in the country so OnlyFans models keep their incomes secret, Daniil Getmantsev has claimed<\/strong><\/p>\n Kiev is missing out on millions of dollars per year in tax revenues from adult streaming site OnlyFans due to the country’s ban on pornography, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker has argued.<\/p>\n It comes as Kiev is facing a massive budget deficit that its Western sponsors are struggling to cover amid Ukraine’s crumbling war effort.<\/p>\n The country’s porn ban is preventing it from cashing in on “about a billion hryvnas ($24 million) per year”<\/em> in tax revenue from domestic OnlyFans models, Daniil Getmantsev, the head of the parliament’s Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Committee wrote on Telegram on Friday.<\/p>\n “Meanwhile, instead of significant potential revenues to the budget, we have over $9 million in unpaid tax from content creators for 2020-2022 alone,”<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n In 2023, nearly 8,000 Ukrainian OnlyFans models made around $120 million via the adult entertainment site, Getmantsev said. Despite this, only 152 of them officially declared their income to tax authorities, he added, arguing that models fear criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n \n Ukraine’s current ban on pornography stems from a 2009 law signed by then-President Viktor Yushchenko, which made the production, distribution, and possession of pornography a criminal offense.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Despite petitions for its decriminalization, the production and distribution of adult content in Ukraine is currently punishable by up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n UK-based OnlyFans reported $7.2 billion in gross revenue for fiscal year 2024. Top earners on the site, mostly celebrities with a pre-existing audience, are estimated to earn millions of dollars monthly.<\/p>\n The website’s owner, Ukrainian-born Leonid Radvinsky, earned nearly half a billion dollars in dividends during the last financial year.<\/p>\n In 2024, Ukrainian authorities began a series of raids targeting OnlyFans models for alleged tax evasion.<\/p>\n
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