🔥 On August 27, the Cabinet approved a draft law that amends the Tax Code and introduces international automatic information exchange about income earned through digital platforms. This means that now Bolt, Uber, Glovo, Airbnb, Booking, and others will report your income to the tax authorities themselves.
Sounds like 'harmonization with the EU' and 'fighting the shadow'. In reality — it’s a new level of total surveillance. Because while Europe thinks about how to simplify life for people, we are figuring out how to elegantly reach into the pockets of those surviving on side jobs.
📌 Key 'features':
If you are a small seller/driver/courier and follow all the rules (separate account, no employees, no excise, income up to ~6.7 million UAH) — there will be a 'preferential' rate of 5%.
For the rest — 18% personal income tax, because 'well, you are rich'.
If you made up to 3 sales in a year totaling up to 2000 euros — you can still breathe easily.
If you sold unnecessary items on OLX and earned less than 36,000 UAH a year — you will be temporarily left in peace.
And here’s the question: is this care for transparency or official licensing of 'digital serfdom'? Because for the state, it looks beautiful:
to society — 'increased trust' (ha-ha);
to business — 'fewer inspections' (we'll see);
to the state — new billions to patch holes in the budget.
And ordinary Ukrainians who drive for Bolt or rent out their house on Airbnb get a new quest: open a separate account, become a tax agent for themselves, and pay even more for the 'joy'.
Now it's not just 'you work — you pay', but 'you tried to survive — the state is already waiting for its share'. Because the truth is: while officials declare 'forgotten' bitcoins, ordinary people are squeezed down to the last penny.
💡 Does anyone still doubt that we will soon have taxes even on likes under posts?
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