Ukrainian transport companies carried 1.026 billion passengers in January-May 2021, which is 1.4% more than in January-May 2020, the State Statistics Service has reported.
The passenger turnover of transport enterprises in the specified period amounted to 21.5 billion passenger-kilometers, which is 7% more than in January-May last year.
According to the State Statistics Service, 29.9 million passengers used railway transport in January-May 2021 (including city commuter trains), which is 6.8% more than in the same period in 2020, and 426.9 million passengers used road transport (1.5% more).
Air transport reduced passenger traffic by 20%, to 2.4 million people.
In addition, according to the State Statistics Service, in January-May 2021, some 155.4 million passengers used trams (9% less versus January-May 2020), subway carried 174.4 million people (21.1% more), trolleybuses some 236.9 million people (4% less).
During the specified period, water transport carried 0.1 million passengers.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC, State Statistics Service, TRANSPORT, TRANSPORT COMPANIES
After the moratorium on the alienation of farmland is lifted on July 1, the parties to the transaction for the purchase of a land plot will need to pay 5% personal income tax and 1.5% military duty, taxes and fees will be calculated from the cost of the plot specified in the sale and purchase agreement, according to the Facebook page of the Ministry of Justice.
The ministry said that the military tax shall be paid even before the moment of notarization of the land alienation agreement.
The Ministry of Justice said that the basic calculated value for taxation of transactions for the purchase of land will be the price specified in the purchase and sale agreement, which cannot be lower than the assessed value of the land calculated by the authorized body.
According to the ministry, the legislative algorithm for taxation of land transactions also provides for a number of benefits.
“The owners of agricultural land plots and land shares received as a gratuitous transfer in accordance with Article 121 of the Land Code of Ukraine are exempted from taxation. Benefits, under certain conditions and only once a year, can also be used by persons who received such plots in the course of privatization,” the ministry said.
Prices for construction and assembly work in Ukraine in May 2021 increased by 16.8% compared to May 2020, the State Statistics Service has reported.
According to the statistics department, prices increased in all segments of construction: in residential construction the growth was 10.6%, in non-residential construction – 15.3%, in engineering – 22.1%.
Compared to the previous month, the cost of construction of residential buildings in May increased by 1.3%, non-residential – by 2%, engineering structures – by 1.4%.
Since the beginning of the year, the rise in prices for construction work amounted to 14.2%, the State Statistics Service said.
As reported, in 2020, prices for construction work increased by 3.7% compared to the previous year, while in 2019 – by 6%.
The Investment Promotion Office (UkraineInvest) has received 23 requests from potential investors for a total of $1.35 billion within the framework of the adopted law on “investment nannies,” UkraineInvest Executive Director Serhiy Tsivkach told Interfax-Ukraine on the sidelines of Hyperloop 3.0 organized by the Biosphere Corporation in Lviv.
“As of today, we have 23 projects. The 24th is being confirmed. The total amount is $1.35 billion. I think that after this event, the pipeline will increase by another 500 million,” Tsivkach said.
According to him, now UkraineInvest employs about 14 people in this direction. “Some of them work directly with investors, some do their homework. We try to ensure that one manager has 7-10 projects,” the head of UkraineInvest said.
He said that the government has already adopted four by-laws necessary for the launch of the investment nannies mechanism in practice.
“We are still expecting three acts: on keeping the register of projects, requirements for feasibility studies and methodology for calculating the amount of state aid. I think that within a month, God forbid, we will be able to process the first applications and submit them to the Ministry of Economy,” Tsivkach said.
In connection with the launch of the land market in Ukraine, which will start working on July 1, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Ministry of Justice and the State Tax Service will publish clarifications on a number of important issues related to the sale of land, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said.
“Next week, the land market will start working in Ukraine. From July 1, Ukrainians will be able to exercise their legal right and independently dispose of land plots. In this regard, this week I instructed the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the Ministry of Justice and the State Tax Service to issue clarifications on the launch of the land market, the work of notaries and maximally assist in resolving issues that Ukrainians may have,” Shmyhal wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
He noted that the government has also made changes to the procedure for maintaining the State Register of Rights to Real Estate, which will ensure the correct sale procedure and the correct disclosure of all information in the register.
AGRARIAN MINISTRY, JUSTICE MINISTRY, LAND MARKET, TAX SERVICE
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food is negotiating with companies from Israel, the United States, France and China regarding public-private partnership in the reconstruction of irrigation systems in the southern regions of Ukraine, Minister Roman Leshchenko said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
“These are projects with main canals, pumping stations, systems for the sale of both drinking and irrigation water. Now we are negotiating with companies from Israel, the United States, France and China in terms of such a public-private partnership,” he said.
According to Leshchenko, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, during a meeting on the state of irrigation of lands with representatives of relevant ministries on June 9, instructed to prepare relevant projects on reclamation systems.
“The logic of the prime minister is that, given the uniqueness of our irrigation system, we need to scale the corresponding project through the prism of the expertise of world-renowned companies that can offer integrated solutions for both drip irrigation and the use of sprinkler machines, the use of main canals, and also the latest technologies of an intelligent water supply system,” the minister said.
He said that the Ministry of Agrarian Policy is currently negotiating with world leaders in irrigation, but cannot disclose their details yet.
As the minister said, there is an interest in companies with experience and the possibility of expertise in the implementation of large reclamation projects.
