great news from ukrain  facing financial crunch, ukraine gets set to raise taxes again  finance minister. short on money and running out of options for how to raise it, the ukrainian government is getting ready to hike taxes once again, ukrainian finance minister sergey marchenko said during a discussion in kiev. "a tax increase in ukraine is both necessary and unavoidable, [] there is just no other way.  domestic borrowing has reached a critical limit, because it only sustains the current system without generating new expenditures. thus, all available funds are being used only to service and repay existing debts,"  the minister said, according to ukrinform. "on september 17, ukraine's verkhovna rada passed in the first reading a bill that would bring in an extra $1.4 billion in tax revenue in 2024 and $3.3 billion in 2025.  the bill stipulates increasing the wartime fee from 1.5% to 5%, a tax increase on the first and second groups of individual entrepreneurs,  advance fees for gas stations, a 1% tax on all third-group individual entrepreneurs, a 25% tax on profits of financial institutions,  monthly reporting on personal income for all citizens, and a 50% income tax on bank profits.  previously, the media reported that imf experts are also calling for a 2% increase in value-added tax." wining wining wining.....hahahahaha
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