Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, announced that he has submitted two draft laws for registration in the Verkhovna Rada on taxation of almost all parcels from abroad. What do they provide for?
Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, announced that he has submitted two draft laws for registration in the Verkhovna Rada on taxation of almost all parcels from abroad. What do they provide for?
«At the request of business — ACC, EVA, FRU, APITU, URB, RAU, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine submitted for registration draft laws on taxation of parcel imports. The texts of the drafts on amendments to the Customs and Tax Codes have been fully developed by the relevant business associations», — said Getmantsev.
Changes provided for in the draft laws on parcel taxation:
In addition, in order to «facilitate VAT administration and speed up customs clearance of parcels,» it is proposed to introduce the possibility of paying VAT directly by the supplier of goods or by the marketplace or other similar platform through which the supply of such goods took place.
The draft laws also provide for the introduction of a new customs declaration for goods of insignificant value with a data set similar to the H7 customs declaration that exists in EU countries.
«Payment of VAT by the supplier of the goods or the marketplace will eliminate the need for additional customs payments by the buyer during customs clearance and will help speed up customs procedures», — Danylo Getmantsev’s post states.
In September last year, he announced that parliament was working on a bill to abolish customs privileges for international parcels. Journalists at dev.ua learned about the reaction of major market players to such a potential innovation.
Recall that recently Ukrposhta announced a strategic partnership with the global Chinese marketplace Temu. Ukrposhta CEO Ihor Smilyansky noted that this may provoke «quite a bit of a backlash in the spirit of ‘you are making life difficult for local players’,» but it will definitely «improve the conditions of Ukrainian consumers».
