After the military tax is raised from 1.5% to 5%, teachers’ real salaries will decrease by 3.5%. But the government will try to resolve this issue. This was stated by the Vice Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science and Technology – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov, according to Komersant ukrainskyi
with reference to Interfax-Ukraine.
The official understands that teachers’ salaries are already too low, so reducing them is a problem. The issue is planned to be resolved during the adoption of the law on the state budget for 2025.
“We will try to resolve this issue when the budget for 2025 is adopted,”
– he said in an interview with the agency.
Fedorov added that one of the possible solutions could be the introduction of an educational subvention.
As reported , Ukrainian educators already receive salaries lower than those stipulated by law.
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Tax increase
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted as a basis the resource draft law No. 11416-d authored by the head of the Finance Committee , Danylo Hetmantsev.
The updated version of the draft law provides for:
1) an increase in the military tax from 1.5% to 5%
- establishment of the CPT in the amount of 1% of the income of single tax payers of the third group;
- establishing the CPT for individual entrepreneurs – single tax payers of groups I, II and IV at 10% of the minimum wage;
2) setting the corporate income tax rate for banks in 2024 at 50%;
3) setting the corporate income tax rate for non-bank financial institutions (except for insurers) at 25%;
4) improving the proposed model for determining the amount of advance corporate income tax payments for petrol stations;
5) change of the tax period from quarterly to monthly for reporting on income paid to individuals (for economic booking);
6) instructing the Cabinet of Ministers to develop a draft law amending the Budget Code of Ukraine to transfer military fees to a special fund of the state budget to be used for the needs of the security and defence sector.
Since the law will not be adopted in its entirety by October, the implementation will be retroactive to 1 October, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.