Thousands of individuals entrepreneurs gathered on Independence Square in Kyiv on Dec. 22 to call for an end to pressure on small and medium-sized businesses and to demand that the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, adopt laws to protect the country’s simplified tax regime for independent entrepreneurs, who pay only 5% income tax, compared to the 40% in combined payroll and income taxes for official employees.
Also, the “save individual entrepreneurs movement” opposes the renewed Jan. 8-25, 2021, lockdown on businesses to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Again, restaurants, fitness centers and other public gathering places will have to close.
After the mass rally on Independence Square, business representatives marched through Kyiv and made stops near the Cabinet of Ministers and President’s Office.
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