Senior lawmaker Daniil Getmantsev has thanked models who pay taxes, adding that he knows many of them personally
A senior Ukrainian lawmaker has hailed the contribution models performing on the adult content site OnlyFans make to the nation’s budget. Daniil Getmantsev, the head of the parliament’s Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Committee, thanked the “models” creating content for the site associated with sex workers for paying taxes, adding that he knows many of them personally.
The MP was responding to a journalist’s question about the tax debts accumulated by sex industry models.
”I am very grateful to those models who paid taxes,” Getmantsev responded, stating that the sum that was paid was “quite large” and that he communicates with “many” of the models via social media.
The total sum generated by OnlyFans amounts to “over 14 million hryvnas ($335,233), Ukrainian broadcaster TCN reported on Thursday, citing the head of the State Tax Service, Ruslan Kravchenko.
Getmantsev called for the decriminalization of sex-industry content production, branding the current Ukrainian government as “hypocritical” on the issue. According to Getmantsev, OnlyFans models should be treated as “self-employed persons” like artists.
Creators of adult content in Ukraine currently could face up to five years in prison for the “import, production, sale, and distribution of pornographic materials.”
In 2021, the Ukrainian parliament passed digital services tax legislation dubbed the “Google Tax Act.” The law focuses on regulation and taxation of online adult content websites and services.
Ukrainian media reported in January that only 10% of 4,400 OnlyFans models had replied to State Tax Service demands to pay taxes, submitting declarations totaling 326.1 million hryvnas ($7.76 million).
The filings revealed a tax debt amounting to $1.5 million at the time and triggered a series of raids against OnlyFans models by Ukraine’s Bureau of Economic Security.
