Almost a third of individual entrepreneurs in Ukraine are preparing to close - survey results
Kyiv • UNN
27% of Ukrainian individual entrepreneurs plan to close their businesses in the near future, according to a survey of 32,000 entrepreneurs. The main reason for closing down 62% of them cited tax increases, including the introduction of the military tax.
Opendatabot showed the results of a large-scale survey of Ukrainian entrepreneurs, according to which 27% of the surveyed businesses plan to close in the near future, UNN reports.
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Almost 32,000 entrepreneurs took part in the survey. 62% of entrepreneurs planning to close down decided to close because of the tax increase. Another 19% of entrepreneurs are shutting down because of business problems.
Since the law on the introduction of the military tax for small and medium-sized businesses was signed, one newly opened business has been replaced by two closed ones. For comparison, in the same period last year, 4 newly opened businesses accounted for only 1 closed one
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