By KYIV. Oct 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Verkhovna Rada is proposed to ban the sale of Russian 1C software in Ukraine.
Corresponding bill No. 10186 on the ban on the sale in Ukraine of software (electronic supplies) for tax and accounting, when creating it, a program code written in the language of the aggressor country was used, was registered by MP Maryan Zablotsky (the Servant of the People faction) in the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament website reports.
According to the proposal of the author of the bill, for violation of such a ban, a fine of 1,000 minimum wages will be imposed, for a repeated violation within a year – 2,000 minimum wages (the same amount of the fine will remain in case of violation for the third or more times in a year).
The bill also proposes to establish that software for tax and accounting (electronic supplies) acquired (put into circulation) before the entry into force of this law can be used by enterprises (except for state and municipal ones) on legal grounds.
As noted in the explanatory note to the document, despite the sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation, business entities continue to use Russian 1C and its analogues.
“In Ukraine, their dominant position in the market has been maintained, and this is more than 80% of the business (with a volume of services worth more than half a billion hryvnia), one way or another, there are users, who continue to buy tax and accounting software (electronic supplies), program code (compiler) which is written in the language of the aggressor country,” the explanatory note says.
