Raiding in Ukraine has a long history being based mainly on gaps in laws related to state registration procedures.
The essence of raiding remains unchanged: criminals commit some offenses (forgery or theft of documents, fraud, etc.) that allow them to gain control over the entrepreneur’s assets on allegedly legal grounds.
As the concept of “raiding” is not enshrined in law, sometimes those who do not commit illegal acts are blamed on it.
Often, the parties to a corporate conflict or debtors who do not want to return the property to its lawful owner use the raiding concept to manipulate public opinion. Such manipulations make it somewhat difficult to monitor real raiding cases.
According to the International Property Rights Index, in 2019, Ukraine ranked 109th out of 129 countries under study in terms of the quality of the private property rights protection system.
Due to the lack of protection of property owners and corporate rights from criminal acts, entrepreneurs are forced to spend significant additional resources to defend their rights and interests.
The lack of the rule of law in society creates social tensions, and Ukrainian and foreign investors do not see Ukraine as the location to invest.
During Ukraine’s independence, raiders regularly improved their schemes. Legislative changes usually provided a framework for this. Let’s take an example of the reform of administrative services in state registration of business and real estate that was carried out in 2015.
As a result, the “most popular” schemes of recent years involve seizing businesses and assets by illegally interfering with the operation of state registers and manipulating their information. Thus, the so-called “registration raiding” reached a new organized criminal level.
Raiders enter information about a new owner of corporate rights or real estate in state registers on the basis of forged documents or use the fact that other documents are not available in the database.
After gaining control over the entrepreneur’s assets, raiders usually alienate them through a fictitious person to an “honest” acquirer or a chain of such acquirers.
The state registration legislation has been amended several times over the past five years. Such legislative changes include the “anti-raiding” law No. 159-IX, which was drafted with the participation of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO).
But how to find out whether the “anti-raiding” legal amendments have resulted in a reduced number of raider seizures of businesses?
Today, the statistics of illegal takeovers in Ukraine are not kept. However, in late September, the Opendatabot open data platform estimated the raiding dynamics in Ukraine based on the number of registered criminal proceedings under the “raiding” articles of the Criminal Code (Articles 205-1, 206 and 206-2) per year and the number of cases heard in courts.
As of August 2020, 606 criminal proceedings have already been registered in Ukraine, 786 criminal proceedings — in 2019, and 500 —in 2018, so the Opendatabot concluded that the number of raider attacks increased annually in Ukraine.
However, the increase or decrease of criminal proceedings under “raiding” articles do not allow to come to an unambiguous conclusion about the increase or decrease in raiding cases. And there are several reasons for this.
First, not all pre-trial investigations of crimes related to raider attacks are conducted under “raiding” articles of the Criminal Code.
Due to the lack of unified approaches, investigations of raiding-related crimes are often conducted on the grounds of crimes under other articles of the Criminal Code: 187 (robbery), 190 (fraud), 191 (property misappropriation or embezzlement, or taking the property by means of the official position abuse), 356 (unsanctioned actions), 357 (theft of documents), 358 (forgery of documents) and 365-2 (abuse of power by a person providing public services).
Secondly, complaints on the crime commission filed with law-enforcement agencies are only one of the tools to protect against raider attacks. The highest priority task of entrepreneurs facing illegal takeovers is to cancel illegal registration actions.
To this end, businesses apply to the court or the State Registration Complaints Board at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
Criminal proceedings are often initiated to strengthen the legal position in a commercial, civil or administrative case by filing a conviction in such criminal proceedings as evidence in the case.
Third, the number of criminal proceedings under both “raiding” and the above articles of the Criminal Code does not necessarily correlate with the number of raider attacks.
Being primarily interested in the immediate cancelation of a registration action, an entrepreneur will not always report to law enforcement agencies, because it may take years before the court delivers its verdict.
Therefore, a more illustrative indicator of the raiding increase or decrease is the ratio between the registration actions performed and the registration actions that were canceled through judicial and administrative procedures.
In such a way, a more complete conclusion about the raiding dynamics can be based on indicators that take into account the number of performed and canceled registration actions, as well as all the tools of entrepreneurs to protect their private property rights and compare such indicators over time.
Complaining to the State Registration Complaints Board at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is one of the most effective and quick ways to protect against raider attacks.
From September 2019 to September 2020, the Board at the Ministry of Justice considered 2,741 complaints from entrepreneurs, and this amount exceeds the annual number of criminal proceedings under “raiding” articles of the Criminal Code.
Accordingly, the conclusion on the raiding dynamics increase or decrease cannot be made without taking into account the performance indicators of the Board at the Ministry of Justice.
When assessing them, we should also bear in mind that the number of complaints received and considered by the Board at the Ministry of Justice may have been affected by the reformatting of its activity that took place in autumn 2019.
Thus, the Board increased the transparency of its activities (sound and video recording of meetings, regular publication of decisions), eliminated the practice of refusing to satisfy complaints of entrepreneurs on formal grounds.
This could help increase the confidence of expert circles in the institution and, consequently, increase the number of appeals from businesses and citizens during the end of 2019-2020.
In addition, we should take into account that the difference between the day of filing a complaint with the Board at the Ministry of Justice and the day of the registration action performed may be months or even years.
As a result, some of the complaints received by the Board at the Ministry of Justice today relate to appeals against registration actions taken in previous years, but not earlier than January 2016.
Moreover, businesses also use judicial mechanisms to protect their rights from raider attacks, despite the lengthy court proceedings.
The raiding dynamics can be seen due to the number of court decisions in cases of appeals against registration actions, which are considered by local administrative, commercial and general courts (depending on the subject matter and the parties involved in the dispute).
Another way to protect against illegal takeovers is to file a complaint with the Business Ombudsman Council (Council) that represents and defends the business interests in government agencies.
Business owners file a complaint with the Council to appeal against actions of state registrars, improper consideration of complaints by the Board at the Ministry of Justice, and inaction of pre-trial investigation bodies.
In its report for 2019, the Council reported on 114 raiding-related complaints from entrepreneurs during 2015-2019, with a trend of increasing the number of appeals for the third consecutive year. Therefore, it is also necessary to take into account the Council’s performance indicators to assess the raiding dynamics.
In such a way, conclusions on the increase or decrease of raiding in Ukraine cannot be based purely on the number of criminal proceedings under “raiding” articles of the Criminal Code.
Fighting against a raider attack, an entrepreneur or any citizen is primarily interested in the cancelation of illegal registration actions and tends to use all available legal remedies for this purpose.
Therefore, the calculation of the raiding dynamics in Ukraine and the effectiveness of government agencies should be based on comprehensive statistics on the number of performed and canceled registration actions, as well as consideration of appeals from citizens or businesses by relevant government agencies and institutions.
To this end, the Better Regulation Delivery Office announces the creation of a RaidBarometer, which is an index that most fully reflects the situation with raiding in Ukraine in recent years. The indicator itself and the calculation methodology will be presented soon.
Understanding the real situation with raiding, the state will be able to use the most optimal tools to ensure the private property right, while society will be able to assess the success or failure of legislative initiatives adopted in recent years to combat raiding.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed the Law on Electronic Communications that defines the rules of work in e-communications.
The document provides for the protection of subscribers’ rights, as well as simplifies licensing procedures for companies. Subscribers will have out-of-court settlement opportunities (between subscribers and operators), and businesses will face fewer bureaucratic obstacles to the introduction of new technologies.
“The Ukrainian telecom market will become more attractive for European investors. Until recently, Ukraine took almost no steps to implement EU telecommunications laws into existing legislation. This law changes the situation: Ukraine is implementing the new EU regulation almost simultaneously with the EU members,” Ihor Samokhodskyi, IT&Telecom Sector Head at BRDO, said.
According to him, there is still much work to be done for the revision of some bylaws to make this law fully effective.
The law will enter into force on January 1, 2022. It is 200 pages and consists of 128 articles.
Note that the first EU Code-based version of the draft law was developed by BRDO experts. A working group within the Parliament Committee on Digital Transformation, including representatives of operators, providers, associations, and experts from the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), prepared the draft law for the first reading.
The government reported on the cancellation of ISO (imposition of special obligations on natural gas suppliers) and the transition to market pricing for gas for household consumers only in mid-2020.
However, when the ‘unexpected’ winter started, the energy cost has traditionally increased on world exchanges, resulting in higher gas prices in Ukraine. But in our country, the European price level was also influenced by such an internal specificity as the boundless greed of gas oligarchs. Through the ownership of gas utility companies, they increase the price by 30-40% compared to independent traders and do not allow consumers to freely go to other suppliers.
The implementation of the procedure for changing gas suppliers also failed:
As a result, instead of engaging in challenging work to regulate and improve market mechanisms, as well as provide targeted assistance to vulnerable social groups, the government decided to resume state regulation of gas prices.
“The sponsors of the decision call it ‘the establishment of fair gas prices’, forgetting that only the market price can be fair, and any artificial regulation leads to market distortions and losses of other market participants (as still occurs in the electricity market). And this is to say nothing of negative consequences for the state in general in terms of probable claims of the IMF and European partners,” the Energy Sector head Anton Zorkin summed up.
BRDO calls on the government to mobilize all efforts to ensure that the reform results are supported, as well as to simplify and speed up the procedure for changing suppliers and prevent the abuse of regional gas distribution companies in this process. It is also important to ensure the provision of targeted subsidies to consumers critically affected by the growth of gas prices.
As gas utility companies abuse the monopoly position, the government’s decision to approve a package of measures to combat the energy emergency by temporarily limiting the profitability of monopolists should be adopted instead of the decision to set fixed gas tariffs.
It should be recalled that BRDO appealed to the AMCU regarding possible competition law violations by regional gas distribution companies.
Since its independence, Ukraine has constantly changed the subsoil legislation.
Legislative acts were often developed as the moment arises. It is logical that after all these years, there are a lot of such acts and most of them are not harmonized with each other.
Experts from Projekt-Consult GMBH (Germany), MinPol (Austria), and the Better Regulation Delivery Office (Ukraine), with the support of the European Union, developed a new subsoil code and submitted it to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
The document should become a common denominator in the subsoil use regulation. What important problems will it solve? (more…)
Ukraine intends to introduce electronic licenses and permits. For this purpose, it is planned to create a Unified State Electronic System of Permits. The Control and Supervision sector experts from BRDO, together with the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Digital Transformation, and other bodies, are drafting the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the project implementation.
At the first stage, the pilot project will include digitization of the most popular top 10 licenses, particularly for mediation activities and employment abroad, in the field of preschool education, veterinary and medical practice, and retail trade-in alcoholic beverages (except table wines), tobacco, and fuel.
“We defined this list of permits using specific criteria: the frequency of obtaining licenses, the number of business entities requiring them, as well as the lack of an electronic application form. Thanks to the electronic system, entrepreneurs will be able to save a lot of time and, consequently, financial resources,” Hanna Bashnyak, Control and Supervision Sector head at BRDO, explained.
According to her, today, the lack of an electronic system of permits leads to significant business difficulties. For example, to keep their tax licenses valid, entrepreneurs need to personally visit STS (State Tax Service) offices, pay for licenses and receive a stamp on the back of their paper licenses. Still, they were not able to do so during the spring lockdown. The new system will provide the option to pay online.
The electronic system will cover a full cycle of license administration: providing administrative services in licensing (issuance, suspension, renewal and cancellation of licenses, etc.), submitting reports on compliance with licensing conditions, complaints about licensing authorities, obtaining information on inspections, generating license cases, and so on.
Moreover, the e-system of permits will allow implementing the following principle established by the Law of Ukraine “On Administrative Services”: entrepreneurs will not be required to provide documents or information, which the agencies involved in the provision of administrative services or related public authorities, local self-government bodies, enterprises, institutions or organizations already have.
We thank the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Digital Transformation for active cooperation in launching e-licenses in Ukraine and hope for significant achievements in 2021!
The quality of housing and utility services has always captured attention. Many of us, consumers, faced the inadequate quality of housing and utility services and illegal actions of natural monopolies. No wonder the Ukrainian people’s deputies didn’t ignore the improvement of the housing and utility services quality. (more…)
In Ukraine, entrepreneurs are anxiously awaiting tax inspections. Small businesses do not always have the opportunity to take advantage of qualified legal advice before, during, and after inspections.
That is why BRDO and Vasyl Kisil&Partners law firm developed a new “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” section on the state Inspection Portal inspections.gov.ua providing explanations and useful tips for successful tax inspections. On December 22, the portal’s updates were presented at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC).
Free, convenient functionality of the new “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” section on inspections.gov.ua will allow users to get detailed instructions on what to do before, during and after-tax inspections, help to properly file an application or complaint, as well as learn more about special aspects of the tax law in Ukraine. You can take advantage of the “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” at https://inspections.gov.ua/ready4/
The Vasyl Kisil&Partners law firm participated in developing the updates to the “Entrepreneur’s Assistant”, which is the project of the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO).
“We are pleased to join this important project, which aims to create a quality and relevant source of information. Our goal is to improve the legal culture and increase entrepreneurs’ awareness. By overcoming legal nihilism through obtaining quality information, small business owners will become stronger and will be able to build a strong middle class that will be able to create their own future,” Andriy Stelmashchuk, Managing Partner of Vasil Kisil&Partners Law Firm, said.
According to Yana Horiunova, Chief Information Officer at the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), tax inspections raise the most questions among business owners, so the tax section of the “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” will be useful for thousands of small and medium-sized businesses without a lawyer by their side.
“Each entrepreneur can register their profile for free on the “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” portal (you only need to enter your EDRPOU (Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations of Ukraine) code or full name if you are a private entrepreneur) and see a file of their company and a calendar of scheduled and unscheduled inspections, assess a risk level of their company, make sure that the documents were formed well by inspectors, and from now on be better prepared for tax inspections. We encourage everyone to use the “Assistant” and tell about it to your colleagues and acquaintances because it includes useful tips and hints from the best experts in the field of inspections in Ukraine,” Yana Horiunova said.
Tetyana Berezhna, Advisor to Vasil Kisil&Partners Law Firm, stressed that the tax-related functionality of the “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” was efficient:
“We offer entrepreneurs sample documents that can be used, in particular, when appealing the actions and decisions of taxation authorities. The platform will remain updated due to constant changes in tax legislation, as well as will be supplemented by practical advice on tax inspections from lawyers and legal professionals of our firm.”
For information:
The “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” is a tool on the Inspection Portal developed by the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) in cooperation with the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine with the USAID’s support Ukraine Competitive Economy Program and the FORBIZ project.
The portal is designed to simplify the preparation of entrepreneurs for inspections. By using the “Entrepreneur’s Assistant”, every business owner will be able to learn about future inspections, prepare and be successfully inspected, as well as learn how and where to complain in case of violations by inspectors. The tool (completely free for users) has been operating since mid-June 2020. So far, more than 6,000 entrepreneurs have used this tool.
Watch a tool’s promo video: http://bit.ly/2Wu6FGu
For additional information, please contact Yuliia Reshitko, +380509979360
The Better Regulation Delivery Office is an independent expert and analytical center funded by international donors, including the European Union as part of the FORBIZ project and the EU4Business Initiative. We focus on improving the business environment and investment attractiveness of Ukraine, promoting the development of entrepreneurship, and establishing a public dialogue between the government and businesses.
Vasil Kisil&Partners is a Ukrainian law firm supporting large cross-border and local projects, advising large domestic and global corporate clients.
A tax section of the free “Entrepreneur’s Assistant” portal on the state platform inspections.gov.ua will be presented on Tuesday, December 22, at 11:00 AM in the Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC) (Khreshchatyk St., 2). Thanks to the new functions, entrepreneurs will be able to get full information on what to do before, during, and after-tax inspections. (more…)
The Parliament re-adopted the European Integration Law No. 3014 “On Electronic Communications” that regulates the provision of telephone and Internet access services.
Why is this Law important?
Read about other benefits of the draft law here.
Back on October 29, the President of Ukraine vetoed the Law “On Electronic Communications” approved by the Verkhovna Rada on September 30. The document was sent for revision.
BRDO experts actively participated in preparing the document for the first reading, as well as analyzed the President’s comments on the Law after its adoption in the second reading and sent their proposals and comments to the Parliament.
The revision of Law No. 3014 allowed to eliminate technical inaccuracies. Also, we invited the deputies to take into account some comments on the legal certainty, as well as the consistency of some provisions of the law with the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine. The full text of the proposed amendments is available here.
Congratulations on adopting the law that will protect subscribers’ rights and improve the telecom business environment in Ukraine! We hope that this time one of the key reforms in European integration and closer links to the EU’s Digital Single Market will not be stopped.
The main task of Ukraine in the forest sector is to ensure the forest management system sustainability. In particular, that is what the Arbitration Commission in Switzerland concluded on December 11, 2020.
In the EU, traceability in the timber market is the basic principle on which the entire sector’s efficient operation is built. Minimization of corruption risks at all stages of timber harvesting and sale, the ability to quickly track the timber location, open sale mechanisms — it all begins with ensuring traceability of origin. Ukraine is gradually taking steps to bring our legislation in line with EU laws by implementing best practices and creating conditions for the inclusive timber market development.
The Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) is actively involved in drafting legislation to improve the timber market’s business environment and ensure the transparency of all business processes: from timber harvesting to sales. In the process of drafting amendments to the legislation, BRDO relies on researches conducted. In particular, the BRDO Agriculture sector conducted a comprehensive review of the timber market.
Thanks to BRDO experts’ work, the timber trade traceability principle was partially implemented in the electronic timber accounting (hereinafter — ETA) system introduced with the adoption of Government Resolution No. 1142 in 2019. An important step was introducing a mechanism for selling raw timber at electronic auctions due to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1178 adopted in 2019.
BRDO experts’ position remains unchanged: only a comprehensive approach and systemic reform will facilitate the sustainable forest sector development.
The following steps should be taken to continue reforming the forest sector:
In particular, it is necessary to develop and adopt the Law of Ukraine “On Timber Market” providing equal access of market participants and non-discrimination, the introduction of liability of parties to sales contracts in terms of violation of trade rules and failure to comply with basic conditions of contracts in case of changing classification, price and quality of goods (if it is impossible to deliver the full volume of goods, except for reduced quantity).
Only a comprehensive approach to forest sector reform will help improve law enforcement and sustainable forest management, allowing Ukraine to meet its obligations under the Association Agreement (para.294).
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According to experts, regional gas distribution companies have unreasonably doubled the price of natural gas for the population.
On December 8, BRDO experts filed a petition for violation of the law on economic competition protection by operators of gas distribution networks (DSOs) to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.
Energy sector experts analyzed the current situation in the natural gas retail market. They found that today mainly gas utility companies (subsidiaries of regional gas distribution companies) supplied gas to the population.
According to the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC), in the first quarter of 2020, 69% of natural gas supplies to the population were carried out by suppliers, majority stakes (shares, equities) of which were owned by gas distribution network operators united under the brand name “Regional Gas Company”, about 2% – by Naftogaz Group, and about 29% – by other suppliers.
Most consumers did not change their supplier due to a lack of information about the possibility of such change and complicated procedures. Moreover, regional gas supply companies often complicate the process of changing suppliers through other actions, in particular, do not provide access to EIC-codes, printing them on gluing and cut here lines of utility bills.
As regional gas supply companies do not compete significantly in the market of natural gas supply to household consumers, the gas price for the population has doubled compared to the 1st quarter of 2020.
Additionally, in September 2020, some gas supply companies set the same natural gas price for the population, and this is extremely suspicious given the free and open market functioning.
For example, the following companies supplied gas for the population at the same price of UAH 5.49/m3: KyivGasEnergy SE, Vinnytsiagaz Zbut LLC, Volyngaz Zbut LLC, Dnipropetrovskgaz Zbut LLC, Dnipropetrovskgaz JSC, Dniprogaz JSC, Kryvorizhgaz JSC, Zhytomyrgaz Zbut LLC, Zakarpatgaz Zbut LLC, Ivano-Frankivskgaz Zbut LLC, Lvivgaz Zbut LLC, Mykolayivgaz Zbut LLC, Odesagaz-Postachannya LLC, Polissya-gaz LLC, Poltavagaz Zbut LLC, Rivnegaz Zbut LLC, Sumygaz Zbut LLC, Lubnygaz Trading House LLC, Kharkivgaz Zbut LLC, Kharkivmiskgaz JSC, Khmelnytskygaz Zbut LLC, Chernivtsigaz Zbut LLC, Chernihivgaz Zbut LLC, Kremenets Gas Supply Department SE.
The actions of regional gas supply companies consisting in a rapid increase in natural gas prices for household consumers may contain possible violations of the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Economic Competition” in the form of abuse of monopoly (dominant) position in the natural gas supply market by setting the selling prices and conditions that could not be established in a competitive market environment. As a result, it distorts competition in the natural gas supply market and restricts household consumers’ interests.
The Energy Sector experts emphasize that it be possible to achieve market and competitive gas prices only by overcoming the long-standing monopoly in the natural gas supply sector. Given the significant competition in the gas market, business entities cannot significantly increase the final product price, as they risk losing their market position and some customers.
Back on August 1, 2020, a free and open market of natural gas for household consumers was launched. Consumers have the right to change their supplier, and gas prices should be established exclusively in market conditions. Thus, consumers have the right to choose the supplier offering the best price for their services.
Appeal to the AMCU on violation of the law on the protection of economic competition
Звернення до АМКУ про порушення законодавства про захист економічної конкуренції
Any foreign citizen who is registered as a private entrepreneur (PE) can be a single taxpayer. The State Tax Service (STS) provided the requested explanations. Before that, only some territorial STS subdivisions made similar conclusions. Previously, foreigners could safely register as private entrepreneurs only under the general taxation system.
This step is consistent with paragraph 4 of the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 420/2020 “On some measures to attract entrepreneurs, highly qualified specialists who are citizens of the Republic of Belarus”.
Why is it important for the IT industry?
The Ukrainian IT industry is extremely interested in foreign IT specialists. The form of cooperation with private entrepreneurs is the main model of activities within the sector. This year, the government approved immigration quotas, under which highly-skilled specialists can apply for a permanent residence permit. However, it is difficult to use the quota mechanism in practice, as foreigners did not have the opportunity to be a single taxpayer when applying for immigration documents. The immigration procedure is a lengthy process: applications for an immigration permit is considered within a year, and then obtaining a relevant certificate takes up to 15 working days.
From now on, foreign IT specialists who decide to immigrate to Ukraine under quotas will be able to legally work as private entrepreneurs and belong to the single taxpayers of group III while waiting for an immigration permit and a permanent residence card.
The STS provided the relevant explanations in response to a request sent by the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) and the IT Ukraine Association and supported by the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
Currently, the Ministry of Digital Transformation, BRDO, and the IT Ukraine Association appeal to the Ministry of Finance to provide a clear conclusion with this regard in the form of general tax advice.
The only problematic issue is a period of legal stay. After applying for an immigration permit, the period of stay of foreigners in Ukraine can be extended up to 180 days from the last entry into Ukraine.
“The opportunity for foreigners to work in the IT industry as private entrepreneurs under the simplified taxation system is a competitive advantage of Ukraine. The only thing we need to do is to establish a rapid quota use process for foreigners, and we can move from brain drain to brain gain in the IT sector,” Ihor Samokhodsky, BRDO’s IT&Telecom Sector Head, said.
Until 2020, the only opportunity for foreigners to work in IT in Ukraine was to be employed legally. To do this, employers had to obtain a permit for the employment of foreigners and stateless persons, and foreign specialists had to obtain a temporary residence permit. And only then a foreign specialist could register as a private entrepreneur under the simplified taxation system while still being registered as a salaried employee.
Since 2020, the immigration mechanism has become available, allowing IT specialists to work as private entrepreneurs without additional restrictions. Moreover, from October 2020, an “extra departure” from Ukraine is not required for foreigners to obtain a temporary residence permit in Ukraine.
The State Tax Service’s explanation letter
In Ukraine, the subsoil use is currently regulated by a large number of legal acts that need to be updated and unified. This does not simplify the business environment and does not make Ukraine independent of imported energy resources while creating opportunities for corruption. (more…)
Step-by-step online instructions on how to hire employees legally are now available on the #StartBusinessChallenge public service.
The instructions describe the stages of employment procedures for private entrepreneurs and legal entities, special aspects of employment for minors, and the requirements for remote work and probation.
Entrepreneurs only need to answer a few simple questions to use the tips from the platform. In particular, it is necessary to select a city and type of business to personalize the information.
Additionally, the platform will allow entrepreneurs to check whether their businesses are subject to quarantine restrictions and learn how to organize their activities properly.
BRDO experts prepared the employment instructions with the support of the State Labor Service of Ukraine.
In 2017, the BRDO developed the #StartBusinessChallenge public online service, which provides free full and up-to-date information on legally opening its own business step by step.
To join the service, visit the section “Cities – add a city”, fill out the form, and get help from the project manager.