Critical import, interaction with tax. That excites business during the war

Most often, business requests were to expand the list of critical import goods (82), interaction with tax (34), booking of critical employees (13), cross -border logistics and border crossing (7), as well as rebuilding within the country and abroad (3). The Council helped dozens of companies to apply for a new product category to the critical import list.

These include, for example, agrotechnics for sowing campaign, popular among the military and displaced persons of the bourgeois and the brick needed to restore homes and infrastructure from destruction. The Business Ombudsman Council advised entrepreneurs on tax changes during the martial law, which, in particular, concerned the transition to a simplified tax system at 2%. As well as booking critically important workers, which allows businesses to work despite the war.

Cross-border movement of goods between Ukraine and EU Member States are relevant for business. Thanks to cooperation with the Polish representative for small and medium-sized businesses, with which the Business Ombudsman Council concluded a memorandum of partnership in April, the companies were able to export Ukrainian products transit through Poland and solve logistics problems on the way of importing goods into the territory of Ukraine.

With the assistance of business ombudsman, one of the largest private medical universities in the country has opened a branch in Poland. Representatives of the Council participated in the preparation of the restoration plan of Ukraine, which was presented at a conference in Swiss Lugano in early July. “We urge the state to be understandable and flexible in relation to business, and therefore try to approach the care of our applicants in the same way.