An additional 10% import duty on foreign exchange transactions for the purchase of imported goods and services, apparently, will not be introduced, so this will not affect the prices of electronics in Ukraine. Despite the fact that the text of the controversial bill has already been approved (it was sent for approval to the relevant committee on August 05), it will not be registered in Parliament, since the Cabinet and the President’s Office have completely abandoned this idea. This was announced by the people’s deputy from the faction “Voice” Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
The reason for the refusal is significant public pressure and resistance to business, the people’s deputy notes.
It was precisely for this that I was the first to expose (August 3) the plans of the authorities to implement this idea and what needs to be done. And he took it to the public plane) Hi ?♂️ to some “especially gifted” Facebook fighters who wanted to overturn something to the parliament there)
And thanks to the associations that responded quickly and provided their counter-argument.
?So congratulations to everyone – good team work) We won this fight)
? I will still make sure that they don’t return to the idea, but I don’t see the potential.
Yaroslav Zheleznyak,
People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation from the faction “Voice”
In early August, it became known that the government was considering introducing an additional import duty on foreign exchange transactions to reduce pressure on the hryvnia and partially cover the budget deficit. It was Yaroslav Zheleznyak who was among the first to write about the initiative then . The idea was to introduce a 10% duty on foreign exchange transactions in favor of a non-resident on the import of goods and services by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs. It was expected that the relevant bill will get to the Rada in the near future. We can only be glad that this will not happen.
It should be remembered here that on June 21, the Rada canceled the benefits introduced in early April during customs clearance of cars and returned duties and VAT on imported goods – the changes began to work from July 1.
Earlier it was reported that the government is developing a new tax model “10-10-10”, which provides for changes in the rates of all major taxes. However, judging by recent reports, the authors of the sensational tax initiative have little chance of success.
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