According to Danylo Hetmantsev, in order to join the EU, we have to pay taxes, as in the EU.
After the end of martial law tax rates will correspond to European ones. This was ZN.UA reported by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on finance, tax and customs policy Danylo Getmantsev.
“And everyone will pay taxes. Maybe it shocked someone in peacetime, now it will. The second thing we will do is to stimulate with financial and tax incentives those industries that should become the locomotive of the movement of our economy. We will give cheap loans. Let's attract money from abroad to the Fund for Reconstruction of Ukraine. We will do everything to open the American and European markets for us forever without any restrictions, “Hetmantsev said.
The expert clarified that his team will support the need for minimum tax rates, but in a tax system unified with the European Union.
“Otherwise we simply will not be members of the EU. Whether we like it or not, we will no longer be able to be one foot in the Soviet past and the other in the European future, “Hetmantsev stressed.
The soft 2 percent tax system for business that is currently in place has done its job. It quickly brought the Ukrainian economy to its senses from the stalemate of the first few weeks of a full-scale war. Thus, in April, the state budget received about 44 billion UAH from the tax service. This is more than planned. But the non-fulfillment of customs revenues – only UAH 8 billion out of the planned 40 – has led to a huge “hole” in budget revenues.
However, the days of the 2 percent tax system are limited by martial law. After the victory, according to the expert, we will again have VAT, income tax, local taxes. That is, there will be a system in place in European countries. And with European rates.
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The state budget of Ukraine is mostly filled with VAT. The main document regulating the VAT sector in the EU is Directive 2006/112/EC “On the common system of value added tax”. The Directive establishes common uniform rules and allows Member States to apply their exceptions to the general rules on the procedure and conditions for registration of taxpayers, categories of goods and services taxed at reduced rates, VAT rates and more. The average VAT rate in Europe is 21%.
What VAT was paid in European countries in 2021
|
Country |
Reduced VAT rate for individuals, goods/services (%) |
Standard VAT rate (%) |
|
Austria (AT) |
10/13 |
20 |
|
Belgium (BE) |
6/12 |
21 |
|
Bulgaria (BG) |
9 |
20 |
|
Croatia (HR ) |
5/13 |
25 |
|
Cyprus (CY) |
5/9 |
19 |
|
Czech Republic (CZ) |
10/15 |
21 |
|
Denmark (DC) |
– |
25 |
|
Estonia (EE) |
9 |
20 |
|
Finland (FI) |
10/14 |
24 |
|
France (FR) |
5.5/10 |
< p> 20 |
|
Germany (DE) |
7 |
19 |
|
Greece (GR) |
6/13 |
24 |
|
Hungary (HU) |
5/18 |
27 |
|
Ireland (IE) |
9/13.5 |
21 |
|
Italy (IT) |
5/10 |
22 |
|
Latvia (LV) |
5/12 |
21 |
|
Lithuania (LT) |
5/9 |
21 |
|
Luxembourg (LU) |
< p> 8 |
17 |
|
Malta (MT) |
5/7 |
18 |
|
Netherlands (NL) |
9 |
21 |
|
Poland (PL) |
5/8 |
23 |
|
Portugal (PT) |
6/13 |
23 |
|
Romania (RO) |
5/9 |
19 |
|
Slovakia (UK) |
10 |
20 |
|
Slovenia (SI) |
22 |
|
|
Spain ( ES) |
10 |
< p> 21 |
|
Sweden (SE) |
6/12 |
25 |
|
United Kingdom (GB) |
5 |
20 |
Without a working rear of the war you can't win . And our economy is barely breathing. The authorities must do everything possible to ensure that they do not die at all. But no, we are increasingly hearing about the return of inspections, increases in previously reduced taxes and further restrictions. It seems that the Pechersk Hills are still not aware of the obvious risk that the real sector of Ukraine may not win. About them in the text “span style =” font-weight: 400; “> Yulia Samaeva ” And let's Hetmantsev just go “.
