President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is strengthening interaction with Ukrainian businesses to create favorable conditions for entrepreneurship in our country. This was emphasized by Deputy Head of the Office of the President Rostyslav Shurma at a briefing in the Office of the President of Ukraine.
According to him, at the meeting held yesterday, the Head of State and entrepreneurs focused on the problems that arise in business relations with law enforcement agencies, and with the Tax Service.
"We discussed the anti-corruption tax reform, the 5-7-9 low-interest business lending program, as well as the sale of goods and services to state-owned enterprises," Shurma said.
Based on the results of the meeting, several decisions, aimed at improving business doing conditions, were made. In particular, the Office of the President plans to develop a concept that would consolidate inspection functions in one government body instead of several, as it is now.
"In a month or two, we will develop a concept according to which we will try to consolidate the entire functionality of interaction with businesses in one law enforcement agency, so that three to five agencies do not come to one company," the deputy head of the President's Office said.
At the same time, he said that the possibility of consolidating control functions in the Bureau of Economic Security is being considered as a working option.
Commenting on the initiative to reduce the share of cash in the Ukrainian economy, Shurma said that the introduction of a cashless system does not require a quick, but a systematic, step-by-step and comprehensive approach. After all, the cashless regime is impossible without a significant reduction in taxes in the country, amnesty of capital and the creation of an infrastructure under which the state will guarantee the use of cashless money at any moment and anywhere.
"We are preparing a project, the main goal of which will be one hundred percent coverage of the entire territory of the country with digital banking services. There should be complete accessibility of the entire infrastructure for any citizen of Ukraine under any conditions," he said.
Also, this transition is impossible without reliability and guarantees for citizens. "Ukrainians should be as confident in digital money as they are now in paper money," the deputy head of the President's Office said.
According to him, the phasing out of the use of cash in the future will make it possible to sharply reduce the level of corruption, increase security and create much more comfortable conditions for citizens.
Shurma also spoke about the results of the Ukraine Recovery Conference, which took place in London in June.
"We saw that there is very clear support from our partners. Fundamental decisions have been made regarding the receipt of frozen assets by us. Revenues from frozen assets will already be sent to Ukraine's recovery," he said.
The deputy head of the Office of the President gave an example. Thus, EUR 200 billion of frozen Russian assets in the EU countries give EUR 3 billion of interest income per year. At the conference, it was decided that they will be channeled for Ukraine's needs.
Shurma said that the high interest of corporations from all over the world in participation in Ukraine's recovery and investments in our country after the victory distinguished this conference.
However, the deputy head of the President's Office said that to receive substantial investments, Ukraine's victory in the war and the country's accession to NATO are needed.