Losses in the state budget could amount to 100 billion hryvnia due to this phenomenon.
People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People faction, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Daniil Getmantsev found that more than 95% of businesses pay wages in envelopes in full or in part, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to the Word and Delo.
“This is a mass phenomenon, but it is difficult to talk about any exact figure. How do you propose to get it? Conduct a survey? Do you receive salary in envelopes? I'm sure yes. All media outlets pay salaries in envelopes. According to my estimates, more than 95% of businesses pay wages in envelopes in whole or in part,” he said.
Getmantsev said that, according to one of the studies, losses in the state budget could amount to 100 billion hryvnia due to this phenomenon.
According to him, he has a negative attitude towards the mechanism when enterprises register their employees as individual entrepreneurs.
“I do not take this positively, this is a scheme to evade taxes within the limits of the current legislation. And we do not plan, at least in the short term, to actively oppose this process. This problem should be solved within the income tax reform that I mentioned earlier. Together with the reduction of the tax burden on income, we must reduce the ability of FLP to work with legal entities for services. It makes no sense to reduce tax rates if we leave the opportunity to pay salaries through individual entrepreneurs, because even the reduced rates will still be more than 5%,” Getmantsev commented.