The Parliamentary Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management held a meeting with relevant departments to reduce the financial burden on the objects of the nature reserve fund and will develop a compromise version of tax changes.
Currently, the land tax rate for the forest fund does not exceed 0.1% of their regulatory monetary value, and for protected objects it is 50 times higher, i.e. up to 5%, public figure Mykola Turyk reports on Facebook.
He said that the eco-committee held a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the State Fiscal Service, with the support of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.
Turyk explained that the Tax Code stipulates that local councils decide on the issue of setting a tax, in particular, a land tax.
"Because of such decisions of some local councils, national parks already owe millions of hryvnias to local budgets," he emphasized, adding that such an approach is unfair.
It is noted that earlier the Ministry of Environment was developing amendments to the legislation to settle this issue. However, the Ministry of Finance did not support the reduction of taxes for state non-profit institutions, which are national parks and other PZF facilities.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in Ukraine, as of January 1, 2023, 3.52% of the territories planned by the State Strategy for Regional Development were bequeathed. The success of the program is a maximum of 2% of the required pace.
