Previously, there was a «false start» and on November 28, the day the president signed the law, it was published. This should mean that it should come into effect on November 29. However, the law was «removed or postponed», as Yaroslav Zhelezniak wrote. And the head of the tax committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, apologized to the accountants for the sleepless night.
We will remind you that the Verkhovna Rada adopted draft law No. 11416-d on tax increases back on October 10. Then he was supported by 247 People’s Deputies. Another 44 days later, the law was signed by the president.
After the adoption of the draft law in the first reading on September 17, representatives of the IT business, in particular, Diia City United, Diia City Union, IT Ukraine, Kharkiv IT Cluster, Lviv IT Cluster, called on the authorities to significantly revise the draft law No. 11416-d. They emphasized that these changes could lead to the exit of companies from the legal regime of «Diya.City», the relocation of the main activity of IT business to other jurisdictions, a decrease in competitiveness and loss of investments, endangering the existence and work of the industry in Ukraine.
CEO and co-founder of Intellias Vitaly Sadler commented on the government’s draft law on the significant increase in taxes: «The most difficult thing in this story is that the state actually breaks its promise for 25 years not to change taxes for participants of the Diya City regime.»
«We got eaten again», or «Why am I not surprised?». Aitiv residents are discussing the possible increase in taxes for IT-FOPs and residents of «Diya.City».
The founder of Netpeak Group has spoken out harshly about the government’s plans to raise taxes.
A member of the supervisory board of the IT company Ajax Systems criticized a number of state decisions regarding tax changes in Ukraine.