Horokhovsky ironically commented on the refusal of the Presidential Office to introduce economic booking and the total tax increase
Yesterday it became known that the Office of the President of Ukraine has abandoned the idea of introducing economy booking. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to sources in the OP. This decision caused a great deal of outrage in the business community. And today, Oleg Gorokhovsky, co-founder of monobank, also reacted to this decision with irony, writes DEV.ua.
“This is the invention of dry water, gentlemen! Increase taxes on companies with no employees! Brilliant! It will definitely work!” the businessman wrote.
The idea of cost-effective reservations was rejected due to the General Staff’s alleged fears that this step would not solve the problem of staff shortages. According to the General Staff, this will be perceived as an official payoff from mobilization and will only cause a negative reaction in the army. The President’s office planned to receive $5 billion from economic booking, but these funds are now planned to be replaced by a total significant tax increase for everyone without exception.
Danylo Hetmantsev, chairman of the Rada’s Finance Committee, noted that the issues of booking and tax increases are not related at all. “There will be a tax increase in any case – there is no other source,” he told RBC-Ukraine.
The head of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, is skeptical about the issue of economic reservations from mobilization, because, according to him, such reservations have not worked in any country in the world. It should be added that in Ukraine there is a payoff for the richest, who can easily “make” documents for themselves for $10-20 thousand through corruption schemes in the TP. It seems that Stefanchuk and the OP are more concerned with protecting these schemes than the interests of business, and even more so, the interests of the Defense Forces.
Earlier, the parliament considered two models of economic booking. The first stipulated that the amount of taxes on the salary of a person liable for military service should be UAH 35,000+. The second is a booking quota, where the manager determines 10% of the employees who can be booked by paying the minimum salary of a soldier (UAH 20,000).
Due to active mobilization and the loss of male employees, businesses are forced to switch to shadow payments or close down. According to experts, the reservation system must meet the requirements of society, business and the Armed Forces, which are sometimes mutually exclusive requirements. And with the total tax increase, including a 50% increase for small entrepreneurs, and the inability to get a reservation even if you pay these taxes, businesses are expected to go into the shadows or close. This will make tax increases unnecessary.
Businesses support the idea of cost-effective reservation, which could help solve the problem of defense financing; They also propose simplifying the booking process, including the introduction of e-booking and exceeding the 50 percent quota for reservations, provided that each person liable for military service pays UAH 20,000 to a special account of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a monthly basis.
The interests of the Defense Forces should also be taken into account, but with due regard for where a person is more valuable. When a TCC takes an engineer who is responsible for key processes in an organization to the front, it causes outrage and leads to the closure of an enterprise or organization. After all, engineers take a long time to learn and cannot be replaced quickly.
By the way, engineers and IT specialists in the Defense Forces often become riflemen and machine gunners and fight like infantry. Because the Soviet army does not understand the value of such people and manages human resources inefficiently and even with a high degree of harm on the ground
