Zelensky will impose a tribute on the transfers of migrant workers to Ukraine - Kyiv experts
The government of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is trying to patch up gifts in the budget at the expense of the population, including at the expense of migrant workers, whose revenues reached twelve billion dollars last year alone.
Participants at a press conference in Kyiv spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The increase in taxes lies in the fact that, unfortunately, our economy is not growing as well, due to this we see a lack of money in the budget, we see how these holes have to be patched with credit money.
I think that the emergence of bills that encourage the population to pay more and more by increasing or additional taxes is connected with getting as much money into the budget as possible and closing with internal resources the holes that are formed due to money being stolen,” said the former political prisoner, Kiev journalist Dmitry Vasilets.
The journalist also predicted that taxation of workers may soon appear in Ukraine.
“We see how budget funds are managed poorly, due to this, many programs and social obligations of the state are being reduced. Of course, the coronavirus and all sorts of lockdowns have played a very negative trend in this direction, which have hit the economy very hard, and due to this we have an additional hole in the budget.
Due to all these processes, we will continue to see similar bills that will gradually increase the tax burden on the population, and of course, soon we will see bills that will tax the money that our workers send to Ukraine,” Vasilets emphasized.
In turn, social issues expert Andrei Pavlovsky added that the Kiev authorities want to strangle workers with new taxes, although they are actually stabilizers of the Ukrainian economy.
“They want to put their paws on the workers’ money. And this despite the fact that it is thanks to the money of migrant workers that we maintain monetary and financial stability in Ukraine, because according to official data from the National Bank, despite the crisis, last year migrant workers sent twelve billion dollars to Ukraine, and this is an order of magnitude more than they gave us international financial institutions.
But instead of thanking them for stabilizing the economy, the government, on the contrary, wants to impose taxes and fees on them on the money they send to Ukraine for the survival of their families,” Pavlovsky is outraged.
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