The Government of Ukraine will send a letter to all tax authorities and governments of the EU countries with a request to apply the “covid precedent”, when many people were forced to leave their countries of tax residence due to the cancellation of flights, and the “tax rule” was not applied to them. residency 180 days”.
This decision was made by the Economic Headquarters under the Ministry of Economy at a meeting on Thursday, its member Mikhail Kukhar said on Facebook.
According to him, the letter will be signed by First Deputy Prime Minister – Economy Minister Yulia Sviridenko, who heads the Economic Staff and approved such a proposal.
Kukhar added that changes are also being prepared to the relevant instructions of the National Bank and the State Tax Service to allow Ukrainian individual entrepreneurs to open accounts in foreign banks.
As previously reported, the European Business Association called on the government to resolve the issue of tax residence of Ukrainian citizens abroad, since staying outside the country for more than 183 days, they can be recognized as residents of the host country and there will be a risk of double taxation.
According to the UN, at present, most of the Ukrainian refugees to Europe received the status of temporary protection in Poland – 1 million 274.1 thousand, Germany – 670 thousand, the Czech Republic – 413 thousand, Italy – 150.3 thousand, Spain – 133.8 thousand, Bulgaria – 129.4 thousand, France – 96.5 thousand, Slovakia – 86.8 thousand and Austria – 78.2 thousand.
Most of them left Ukraine at the end of February and March.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a Memorandum on Turkey’s participation in the restoration of Ukraine’s infrastructure. In addition, Turkish campaigns will also provide consulting and technical assistance, said Deputy Head of the Office of the President (OP) Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
“In Lvov, during a meeting between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Memorandum was signed on Turkey’s participation in restoring Ukraine’s infrastructure,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to him, Turkish state and business structures will develop specific restoration projects, as well as provide consulting and technical assistance.
“The restoration of the bridge in the village of Romanovka, Kyiv region, is being considered as the first project,” Tymoshenko stressed.
“We thank our partners for supporting the Fast Recovery plan and our initiatives,” the deputy head of the President’s Office wrote.
In January-July of this year, including more than five months of a full-scale war, the TAS Insurance Group paid UAH 504.11 million under concluded insurance contracts, or 22.4% less than in the same period of 2021, reported on the website of the insurer.
It is also noted that the first place in the insurer’s portfolio of payments with a share of 41.71% was taken by OSAGO, for which payments amounted to UAH 210.27 million. More than a quarter of all payments, or 27.44%, fell on CASCO – UAH 34 million.
The third position in the company’s payout portfolio with a share of 13.49% was occupied by VHI – UAH 67.99 million.
Not much less in the total amount of payments was the share of the “Green Card” – 12.79%, or UAH 64.47 million.
At the same time, under property insurance agreements, SG TAS paid UAH 4.99 million for the reporting period, which is 12.8% more than in seven months of last year.
Under other insurance contracts, the company paid UAH 18.05 million in compensation, exceeding the figure for January-July last year by 15.1%.
Cardboard and Paper Company LLC (Lviv), a major Ukrainian manufacturer of cardboard sleeves and sanitary and hygienic products, increased production by 44.7% in January-July compared to the same period in 2021 – up to 616, UAH 41 million
According to the statistics of the UkrPapir Association, provided to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, in this way the company slightly accelerated the growth rate of this indicator compared to the same period last year (according to the results of the first half of the year, it was 42%).
In pack terms, the company increased the output of base paper for sanitary products by 10.8% to 4.14 thousand tons, while increasing the output of toilet paper in rolls by 46.6% to 2.35 million pieces.
The output of cardboard products decreased slightly (by 1%) – to 15.31 thousand tons.
As reported with reference to UkrPapir statistics, the factory continued to work all months from the beginning of the year, reducing the production of paper and cardboard in March (compared to March 2021), but in April it already switched to positive dynamics, which it maintained in the following months.
Cardboard and Paper Company (until 2011 – Lvivkartonoplast) produces products and semi-finished products from recycled cardboard (cardboard sheets, corners, sleeves), cellulose and recycled waste paper (toilet paper, towels, napkins (TM Papero).
In 2021, the company produced products worth UAH 782.7 million, which is 46.7% more than a year earlier.
A major Ukrainian manufacturer of corrugated cardboard – Poninkovskaya Cardboard and Paper Factory-Ukraine (“PKBF-Ukraine”, Khmelnitsky region) in January-July produced products worth UAH 1 billion 238 million, which is 7.7% more than in the same period in 2021.
According to the statistics of the UkrPapir association provided to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, in physical terms, the factory reduced the production of containerboard (including corrugating paper) by 22% – to 40.19 thousand tons, and by 19% the production of corrugated boxes from it – up to 36.78 million sq. m.
At the same time, paper output increased to 327 tons from 64 tons a year earlier.
At the same time, in July, the production of corrugated packaging decreased by 5% compared to July 2021, to 6.8 million square meters. m, paper and cardboard – by 2.7%, up to 7.9 thousand tons.
The Ponikovskaya Factory (formerly the Ponikovsky Cardboard and Paper Mill), once the largest manufacturer of school notebooks, currently has one main production – paper and cardboard, mainly produces corrugated packaging, as well as wrapping, waste paper.
The factory is part of the United Cardboard Company-Ukraine (UCC, Lutsk), whose production assets also include Lutsk KBF-Ukraine (Volyn region), which reduced the production of cardboard by 22.6% in January-July – to 27.8 thousand tons.
As reported with reference to data collected by the association from industry companies, in January-July, taking into account the fact that a number of enterprises in the industry were either destroyed or damaged or located in the occupied territory, the production of paper and cardboard decreased by 46% – to 286.6 thousand tons, corrugated packaging – by 42.8%, up to 242.4 million square meters. m.
