Draft Law on the amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of Ukraine for Ukrainian digital economy improvement was adopted on the second reading.
The law introduces special conditions of resident companies’ Diia City taxation and employees’ income and IT specialists hired. Resident companies of Diia City will choose between paying the income tax (18%) and the taxation of savings income at the rate of 9%.
The instrument exempts from taxation yields income accrued by the resident company, provided that they are paid not more than once every two years.
In addition, the bill establishes special tax rates for employees of IT companies. It is suggested to introduce.
- A personal income tax — 5%;
- A single social contribution of the minimum wage — 22%;
- A military levy — 1.5%;
It is noted that the act will enter into force on 1 January 2022. The cabinet of ministers of Denys Shmyhal, within three months of the entry into force of the law, is charged with:
- Adoption of the regulations necessary for the implementation of the law;
- Bringing its normative legal acts into line with the act;
- Ensurement that ministries and other central executive authorities adopt the legislative and regulatory instruments necessary to implement the act.
It will be recalled that, at first reading, the draft was adopted on 2 June. At the same time, on July 15, the Rada adopted the law on Stimulating the development of the digital economy in Ukraine, which regulates legal relations arising from introducing a new legal regime for IT specialists named Diia City. On August 11, the head, the state, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signed the law.
