Verkhovna Rada Member from the Servant of the People faction, head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, said that next week the parliament will again consider the bill on raising taxes, which was failed in the first reading today.
He informed journalists about this, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
"The bill is aimed at repeating the first reading and, unfortunately, the threat of underfunding the army has multiplied. Honestly, frankly, in a humane way, even apolitically, I do not understand those colleagues who did not support such a decision. The decision is objective, the decision is fair, the decision is absolutely correct. At the same time, we will definitely not give up, we will prepare this bill for the second reading. We have five days for this, because the deadlines have been shortened. And we will return it to the Verkhovna Rada next week," said Hetmantsev.
According to him, during the repeated first reading, the main issue by which the bill will be revised is the return of the norm on the tax on excess profits of banks.
"The thing is that the structure of these profits is that the majority of them, the vast majority of them, 53 percent, are profits from investing money in deposit certificates and government domestic loan bonds, that is, assets that are risk-free. And therefore, if the state gives banks the opportunity to earn additional profits in such difficult times, accordingly, the state has the right to take part of these profits in order to finance the army that protects these same banks," he explained the need to introduce a tax on excess profits of banks.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada failed the bill on increasing taxes and sent it for a repeat first reading.
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