The Rada recommends directing the military tax toward servicemen's salaries
Kyiv • UNN
The Budget Committee supported the draft law on directing the military tax toward payments for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This will ensure an inflow of 200 billion hryvnias per year.
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Budget has recommended that the parliament adopt in its entirety draft law No. 15167, which provides for the crediting of the military tax to a special fund of the State Budget, which will be directed toward military salaries. This was reported by UNN with reference to the card of draft law No. 15167.
Details
Following the consideration of this issue, the committee made a decision: to recommend that the Verkhovna Rada include the draft law on the agenda and, based on the results of the first reading, adopt it as a basis and in its entirety with the necessary technical and legal amendments
According to the draft law, it is proposed to establish that starting from January 1, 2027, until December 31 of the third calendar year following the year in which martial law in Ukraine is terminated or canceled, the military tax shall be credited in full to the special fund of the State Budget of Ukraine and directed toward the payment of monetary allowance for servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Chair of the Rada Budget Committee, Roksolana Pidlasa, stated that this will allow for the crediting of 200 billion hryvnias per year to the special fund, which will be directed exclusively toward the payment of monetary allowance for AFU servicemen.
This step is of greater political significance, as currently almost all of the state budget's general fund's own revenues are already directed toward defense needs—specifically, both for the monetary allowance of all Defense Forces personnel and for weaponry. However, after the conclusion of active hostilities, a fixed targeted allocation of the military tax will be practically necessary due to the increase (return to norm) of the share of non-military expenditures and the decrease in international aid, which currently covers them
Addendum
The Verkhovna Rada adopted as a basis and in its entirety a draft law that provides for the extension of the military tax payment for another three years after the end of the war.
It provides for the extension of the current provisions of tax legislation regarding the military tax for three years following the year in which martial law is terminated.
According to the document, starting from January 1, 2025, until December 31 of the third calendar year following the year in which martial law in Ukraine is terminated or canceled, the obligation to pay the military tax is expected to continue, specifically at the rate of:
- for individuals at a rate of 5%;
- for individual entrepreneurs (FOPs) - payers of the single tax of the first, second
and fourth groups – 10% calculated from one minimum wage;
- for payers of the single tax of the third group - 1% of
income.
As a reminder
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the law from the IMF package on the extension of the military tax payment for three years after the end of the war.