President Zelenskiy strongly backs the 5% tax rate for ‘autonomous’ IT employees, a fraction of Ukraine’s standard 18% tax rate.

President Zelenskiy strongly backs the 5% tax rate for ‘autonomous’ IT employees, a fraction of Ukraine’s standard 18% tax rate. “This industry is developing in the country not due to the state support, but due to the intelligence of Ukrainians,” he told IT executives in Lviv on Friday. “One of the steps that the state can take is not to increase the tax burden on this [IT] industry.” He said he sees IT as key to modernizing Ukraine: “Everyone is saying: ‘we need honest customs, honest law enforcement agencies, we need to overcome corruption.’ We all understand that the human factor is very difficult to fix. But digital and IT industry can do it.”