Criminalistic Characteristics of Evasion of Taxes, Fees (Mandatory Payments

Authors

  • Viktor Shliakhta Lviv Regional Department of the Corporate Security Department of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia", Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990X.170.337311

Keywords:

criminalistics, criminalistic characteristics, evasion of taxes, fees (mandatory payments), crime investigation, tax crime, crime investigation methodics

Abstract

The study of the скшьштфдшіешс characteristics of criminal offenses in the modern period indicates different approaches to its definition and structure. Although the place in the structure of the methodics for investigating criminal offenses has been established in previous studies, and the importance is beyond doubt. That is why this article includes the problem of the formation and role of the criminalistic characteristics in relation to the organization of tax fees (mandatory payments) evasion. A separate direction in this article was the establishment of the structure of the criminalistic characteristics on the example of tax, fees (mandatory payments) evasion. During this study, the author tried to provide an author’s definition of the criminalistic characteristics, identifying and including its mandatory features. In addition, having analyzed the existing approaches in the structure of the criminalistic characteristics of individual criminal offenses, the author pointed out the presence of mandatory and additional elements of such characteristics. In this regard, the author proposed his own vision of the structure of the criminalistic characteristics of tax, fees (mandatory payments) evasion as a criminal offense in the field of economic activity.

 

 

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Published

2025-10-22

How to Cite

Shliakhta, V. (2025). Criminalistic Characteristics of Evasion of Taxes, Fees (Mandatory Payments. Problems of Legality, (170), 262–279. https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990X.170.337311

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