The Committee on Taxation and Customs Policy recommends that the Parliament should recommit the draft law on amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine (re introducing fee on manufacturers and importers of packaging and packaged goods for processing solid domestic waste)

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
15 October 2013, 11:28

The bill (Reg. No. 2611a) suggests introduce new fee on manufacturers and importers of packaging and packaged goods for processing solid waste and increase the rate of environmental tax on disposal of unprocessed solid domestic waste in specially allotted places.  

In general, supporting the development of the disposal of waste sphere in Ukraine, the Committee members voiced several remarks to the bill.  

The Committee members stressed that the bill stipulates increase the rate of environmental tax on disposal of unprocessed solid domestic waste. Comparing with 2013, the rate will increase by 29 times in 2018.  

Stipulated amendments to the Tax Code regarding gradual increase of environmental tax rates do not comply with the regulatory legal procedure; they constitute a temporary standard and should be included in section XX of “Transitional Provisions”. Moreover, financial and economic calculations of the impact of the suggested amendments on the economic activity of economic entities that recycle solid domestic waste are not provided.