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On October 6, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy began consideration of draft law No. 5376 in the second reading, which is a tax component of the Diia City special regime. During the Committee meeting, Andrii Kholodov, a People’s Deputy from the Sluha Narodu party, proposed an amendment under which the transition period for Diia City residents from private entrepreneur model to gig contracts should last not 3 years, as requested by the IT industry, but only 1 year.
During the voting, it turned out that there was no quorum for the adoption of such an amendment, so the meeting was adjourned. Further consideration of draft law No. 5376 is scheduled for early next week. However, in addition to this amendment, the text of the draft law contains a number of steps critical for the IT industry.
On October 5, IT Ukraine sent an official letter to Danylo Hetmantsev, the Chairman of the Committee, in which the Association insists that the Committee should reject, in particular, such categorically unacceptable for IT business amendments introduced by the People’s Deputies:
In fact, this means that if People’s Deputies vote for the above-mentioned amendments, the industry’s screws will be tightened more. It is a question of non-alternative transfer of all private entrepreneurs to labor relations or to gig contracts, and also the absence of tax benefits for those experts of Diia City residents who do not do programming directly. At the same time, the transition period to change the model of work of all resident companies of the regime will last only a year.
