Ukrainian government eyeing super income tax for business tycoons

World July 28, 2014, 19:02

PM Yatsenyuk said the government plans to increase tax rates for interest income from oil and gas deposits

KIEV, July 28. /ITAR-TASS/. The Ukrainian government is considering a super income tax for oligarchs, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Monday.

He said the government plans to increase tax rates for interest income from oil and gas deposits.

Four months ago the government managed to impose taxes on Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, Yatsenyuk said adding that “everyone who receives super incomes in the current wartime conditions must share [his profits] honestly and fairly”.

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