At least 27 court rulings in which OnlyFans content creators successfully challenged and partially or fully overturned fines imposed by the State Tax Service are currently listed in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions. In total, OnlyFans models have attempted to challenge the Tax Service’s actions in 94 cases. They have won nearly a third of them. In 92% of cases, procedural errors were the reason for the Tax Service’s defeats.
The number of court rulings in favor of OnlyFans content creators challenging fines and additional tax assessments from the Tax Service is rapidly increasing, according to the “Babusia” court decision search engine. At least 27 cases have been resolved fully or partially in favor of the plaintiffs. This is nearly a third of the 94 cases where models sought to defend their rights.
This year, courts have already issued 13 rulings in favor of content creators. February set a record with 5 rulings.
In 92% of cases, the courts sided with the plaintiffs due to procedural violations by the State Tax Service. Most often, the Tax Service sent documents to outdated addresses. The letters were returned, but the audits were conducted anyway. As a result, the courts ruled such audits unlawful, and along with them—all the assessments.
At the same time, the Tax Service often relied on letters from British tax authorities regarding payments from Fenix International Ltd, which operates OnlyFans. But the courts consistently emphasize: such letters are merely a pretext for an audit, not proof of income. Without bank statements, contracts, or other primary documents, the additional assessments are deemed unfounded.
One in three won cases was recorded in the Odesa region—8 court rulings. Dnipropetrovsk region follows with 5 cases. However, in some regions, particularly in the Zhytomyr and Rivne regions, despite ongoing proceedings, no cases have been won yet.
The largest fine that was successfully overturned was recorded in Kyiv—over 3 million UAH in taxes assessed on allegedly nearly 400,000 dollars in income. The plaintiff provided her own bank statements, which did not confirm these amounts—and the court ruled in her favor.
In Cherkasy Oblast, the court canceled over 1.3 million hryvnias in taxes and fines due to the complete absence of source documents. And in Odesa Oblast, the reason for canceling a fine of over half a million was a simple mistake with the address: the tax authority failed to properly notify the person of the audit, which the court deemed unlawful.
In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the plaintiff independently contacted the British tax authority and received an official response: no information about her had been sent there. In fact, the State Tax Service was relying on data that did not exist. Accordingly, the court canceled all charges.
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Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of the OnlyFans platform, has died at the age of 43, the company announced. Radvinsky passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Leonid Radvinsky was an American entrepreneur of Ukrainian descent and the principal owner of Fenix International, the parent company of OnlyFans. In recent years, he remained one of the least public figures in the global digital business, despite the platform’s rapid growth and multi-billion-dollar dividends.
OnlyFans, founded in 2016, grew rapidly during the pandemic and became one of the world’s most famous subscription-based content platforms. In 2025, Reuters reported that the service’s owner was in talks regarding a potential sale of the company valued at approximately $8 billion.
Social influencers and content creators on subscription platforms, including OnlyFans, are increasingly applying for O-1B visas in the US for people with outstanding achievements in the arts, the Financial Times reported.
As noted in the publication, in such cases, lawyers use digital metrics — audience, reach, revenue, and commercial collaborations — as one way to confirm the applicant’s “notoriety” and professional success; a niche of lawyers specializing in such applications has also formed in the market.
This is not a “new visa for models,” but rather the existing O-1 (extraordinary ability/achievement) category, often referred to in the public sphere as the “talent visa.” The formal requirements for it are established by USCIS rules and federal regulations and do not include a separate criterion for the number of subscribers — the applicant must prove outstanding abilities or achievements through the prescribed sets of evidence.
According to US State Department statistics, in fiscal year 2024, consulates issued 19,457 O-1 visas, 13,922 O-2 visas (accompanying professionals), and 6,035 O-3 visas (family members).
The tax debt of Ukrainian citizens who received income from posting content on the OnlyFans platform in 2020–2022 amounts to UAH 384.7 million as of September 1, 2025. This was reported by the State Tax Service in response to a journalist’s request, as reported by Ekonomichna Pravda; the information has also been confirmed by a number of Ukrainian media outlets.
The tax service clarified that this refers specifically to the tax debt of individuals on income from the service owner Fenix International Ltd for the period 2020-2022; data for 2023 has been received recently and is currently being processed.
It should be noted that the State Tax Service treats the income of Ukrainian residents from OnlyFans as foreign income subject to taxation in Ukraine (income tax and military tax; some authors work as sole proprietors). At the same time, the platform itself pays VAT in Ukraine on electronic services (the so-called “Google tax”): in 2023, the amount of such VAT exceeded $928,000.
Previously, the media raised the issue of conflicts between criminal law provisions on pornographic content and the need for authors to declare their income, but the fiscal authority’s position on the taxation of such income remains unchanged.
