Families of migrant workers are being forced out of Ukraine
Labor migrants are sending more and more money to Ukraine, and if their earnings are taxed, the migrant workers’ families will leave the country for good.
The head of the National Council for Economic Development, Alexey Doroshenko, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Workers are transferring more and more money to our country. In the first 7 months, they sent us 6 billion dollars in real money through transfer systems alone, which is almost equal to 5% of our country’s GDP. And here I would like to warn the Cabinet of Ministers so that they do not under any circumstances covet this money and do not want to somehow receive taxes from it,” the expert said.
“If we continue to oppress these people, they will pack their bags and take their families, go there, abroad. We will lose these people completely. Now these people hope to return sooner or later to their country, when things will be better here. But if you and I now begin to catch up with them with taxes on our territory, despite the fact that they did not leave there because of a good life, then in fact we will lose these people once and for all. Therefore, this is the case when we must understand that there is no need to try to impose a tax on everything that moves,” Doroshenko said.
Recently, the Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Andrei Reva demanded that workers declare their income received abroad.
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