Tax officials, like termites, are gnawing holes in Ukraine's economy, business, and the pockets of ordinary Ukrainians. This opinion was expressed in an exclusive interview with UNN by Yana Matviychuk, a volunteer, founder of the creative agency ARENA CS, and member of the Young Business Club Board.
For me, Ukraine is now like a large ecosystem in which everyone has to work for the victory and destruction of the enemy. But, as in every natural ecosystem, we have pests. These pests in Ukraine are corrupt officials and tax authorities
According to her, while corrupt officials can be fought and there is a chance that they will be brought to justice, tax officials "commit lawlessness in the legal field" and it is very difficult to fight them.
"Tax officials, like termites, are gnawing holes in the economy, in business and in the pockets of ordinary Ukrainians. Tens of thousands of tax officers do not create money inside the country, do not contribute to economic growth, but only harm and devour everything available. They exist on our money. This is a resource that could be used, for example, to provide for the military. But it's being used by termite tax officials," Matviychuk emphasized.
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Co-founder of Concord Bank Olena Sosiedka saidthat she is ready to publicly tell how the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, destroyed her bank and called on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to protect Ukrainian business from Hetmantsev's arbitrariness.
She also suggested that Hetmantsev invite her to a meeting of the parliamentary committee and personally ask her about anything he was interested in.
In addition, Sosiedka said she was ready to speak publicly about how Hetmantsev destroyed Concord Bank at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Business Support. She asks council members Vyacheslav Klymov, Artem Borodatiuk, Oleh Horokhovsky, Kostyantyn Yefymenko, Taras Kitsmey, Oleksandr Konotopsky, and Dmytro Oliynyk, as well as Yulia Svyrydenko to invite her to the meeting.
According to Anatol Amelin, a member of the Board of Fellows at The Aspen Institute Kyiv and director of economic programs at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, business in Ukraine is already desperate. He is ready to speak publicly about the pressure on entrepreneurs from the tax authorities and security forces.