Tech giants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Bloomberg, Alibaba, and Booking.com would have to pay Ukraine’s 20% VAT tax

Friday, June 4, 2021

when providing sales to customers in Ukraine, under a bill approved yesterday by the Rada at second reading. An explanatory note accompanying the bill says the current tax-free regime discriminates against resident companies that have to pay VAT. The note says: “Establishing special rules for VAT taxation of electronic services is becoming a common practice in other countries, for example, in countries of the European Union, as well as in Australia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia.”

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