Rada extends military fee for 3 years after war end

The Verkhovna Rada extended the military fee for 3 years after the end of the war.

This was announced by Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Holos faction, on the Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

According to the MP, 257 MPs voted for the basis and the entire bill No. 15110.

The bill also stipulates that a special fund will be created in the Budget specifically for military needs. This is where the "military fee" should go, and not to the General Fund of the Budget.

This year, it is planned to collect UAH 163 billion from such a fee.

The current rates remain unchanged:

- 5% - for individuals (for military personnel and employees of the security and defense sector - 1.5% of income in the form of cash benefits (except for income exempt from taxation by military levy);

- 10% of the minimum wage - for individual entrepreneurs of groups 1, 2 and 4;

- 1% of income - for single tax payers of group 3 (individual entrepreneurs and legal entities, except e-residents).

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, military fee is a mandatory payment introduced in Ukraine in 2014 with the beginning of the russian armed aggression.

The fee rate is 5% for most income of individuals.