Yuzhanina: Hetmantsev's idea to destroy the Internet in Ukraine is a fix - Yuzhanina

The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, dreams of leaving Ukrainians without the Internet. This opinion was expressed by Nina Yuzhanina, a member of the Verkhovna Rada's tax committee, UNN reports.

Today you have the Internet, but tomorrow you will not have it, because this is the idea of the head of the tax committee - he "took on" Internet providers

She recalledHetmantsev's words that this "industry is quite rich, and in conditions when it remains stable due to frequent blackouts, it has additional advantages and, accordingly, revenue growth.

According to Yuzhanina, the idea behind the fixes by the head of the Rada's tax committee is to force providers to abandon the simplified taxation system so that they do not "split into individual entrepreneurs.

Yuzhanina added that the tax authorities did not hesitate to interpret Hetmantsev's words, and on August 20, 2024, the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Dnipropetrovs'k Oblast issued an explanation that providers cannot be single tax payers.

The MP explained that, according to the tax authorities' logic, since the Internet access service is provided, the equipment is also serviced in accordance with the Law "On Electronic Communications". However, the Code does not explicitly prohibit Internet providers from using the simplified taxation system! It is not surprising that a petition "On Preventing the Abolition of the Simplified Taxation System for Taxpayers in the Field of Electronic Communications" was registered on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine .

In my opinion, this is another area that this man can destroy. Because for him, small business and the self-employed are enemies. Unfortunately, people with this kind of thinking are breaking the country's economy today

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As UNN previously reported, Hetmantsev decided to declare war on Internet providersusing the simplified taxation system. According to the MP, these entrepreneurs pay too little tax. In response, the Internet Association of Ukraine called on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to protect them from the arbitrariness of Hetmantsev, who may be playing along with foreign players.