The Committee on Taxation and Custom Policy recommends that the Parliament should adopt the Bill on Amendments to some Legitimate Ccts of Ukraine (regarding the Economic Increase in Ukraine)

08 December 2008, 16:31

According to the Bill (Reg.№3355) it is suggested to decrease the rate of value-added tax (VAT) to 15% and change the mechanism of VAT paying

 

The author of the bill, M. Katerynchuk declared that "it is proposed by the bill to impose VAT directly during the selling of the goods, works, and services to the final consumers by the Vat payers." When selling goods to the final consumers the enterprise must pay VAT in 3 days term.

 

During the Scrutinizing of the Bill the members of the Committee expressed several remarks, in particular it was stressed that the "suggested mechanism level the main principle of VAT paying on all the periods of producing and actually it is selling tax". It may cause evasion from paying the tax in case when the goods are supplied to the tax payer who is bankrupt or unscrupulous payer".

 

People´s Deputies consider that amendments to the Law "On Taxation of the Enterprises Income" (regarding the 50 % reduce of income in case it is used to buy intangible assets and main funds) are "not effective way of entrepreneurship support" and will lead to budget loss in the sum of 21mlrd.grn.