I could be wrong, 1. 3. One of the asian ones. Or maybe its singapore, and in ukraine, ukraine was somewhere in the lower 20s, but there the indicator seems to be 1. 6, which is also very low. Recently, one of the famous ukrainian reproductive medicine doctors , professor mil, visited us and he said that for his according to statistics, the fertility index in ukraine is now 0. 8, and this is actually the lowest level of fertility in the world. In the states, they have understood whether there are objective factors, or are there any chances of any state policy that would also allow to increase this indicator, this indicator 08 now it will increase one way or another because people dont give birth now because of the war, risks, uncertainty. And of course you postpone this process, if in the 22nd year there was an inertia of 9 months because the decision was made to give birth to a child before the start of the war, now this decision is made or not made during the war and of course people prefer to postpone it because war is uncertainty and very difficult. But again, we can go back to some other indicator, it will still be insufficient, and it is, well, you really illustrated the problem, it is more than the biggest problem there in the balcony in singapore. Why . That hong kong, for example, an apartment of 35 m is considered a very classy road and big e , there is little space in cities and when people move to cities, they stop giving birth, this is a normal reaction of a rational person, that is, people rational, what we didnt do there, and thats why the general world trend is that as soon as the organization begins in the country in 2010 years and people stop being born enough and the population decline begins in a natural way, then it is replaced only by migration, this is the response of the Human Society of the human organism to urbanization because when you lived somewhere in a village in china, for example, you have two children, you have 10 children , it doesnt really help your life, it doesnt really help, plus there are additional expenses, each child is not only special, but it helps a lot in the economy. Yes, and thats why people gave birth a lot, when you come to the cities, this doesnt happen in the cities, you already have a new child, its very expensive, and thats why people start giving birth less or, in principle, start giving up having children, because its expensive and it will spoil the coexistence that already exists there this is a completely Natural History and ukraine simply entered into this Natural History reinforced by our emigration, which exploded after the start of the war, and that is why we have this gap, that is why i do not care about any programs to stimulate the birth rate, we will not solve this, do we need programs the stimulation of independence is of course necessary, they simply will not completely solve this problem, is gender equality necessary in order for more women to work and return to the labor market, yes, it is necessary, but still, this problem will not be solved without migration, and it must be recognized, you know, i reminded you here facebook that 6 years ago, although it seems that it was 60 years ago , about so far away already in 2017, it started on the ninth of august, in fact. If i am not mistaken , the reform of the Civil Service is the reform of recruitment into the Civil Service, that is, competitions and all those things and so and then new salaries, which outraged everyone at the time, and populists like tymoshenko drove us away. The question is , what is happening with this policy now . There were some issues with the allocation of 400 or so million to these to these series and so on. That is, this is also one of the issues of whether we will be able to attract, for example, specialists after the war to some important positions due to the border of some ukrainians or other people who simply have a good, good education and are kind i dont know if the way of thinking actually and or experience yes and will we manage to leave those people who may return in the first wave but will say no its simply impossible i m going back i already there in a year, in two, i more or less understood how if it is much better there, well, look, if people have returned , they will already be here, because the economy will develop dynamically in ukraine, people simply change countries, when they are bad, when they are good they do not change, and that is why if a person arranges his life abroad, then actually the number of people who return is a function of the continuation of the war. A very demonstrative example , just to the ministers of tkachenko or it was under his leadership that the institution of state cinema was destroyed there, the competition was just destroyed, as a result, it was destroyed before the school assignment, it began to produce because unfortunately, we do not see it, and this is a big problem as to whether people from the diaspora will be recruited for public positions. Well, maybe a certain number of romantics will appear again, but now the same example of a brewer who entered the ministry for six months and did a lot of useful things has gone back in business, and now they came to him with a 180volume case against him, accusing him of causing losses to the state for reforms, and for reforms that everyone recognizes as correct. People and creates such a reverse selection, because fit people, seeing kyiv valev, seeing the case of pivovarsky, especially kyiv vagarsky, they will think where our people are, we need it, we will enter the Civil Service there for six months to a year, we will destroy our lives for 10 years ahead and then we will have a different life. Therefore this is a problem this is a big problem , and unfortunately, i did not see such a simple solution after its completion. Even against the background of european integration, there were such fantastic ideas , for example, to ban any judges who became judges in ukraine, uh, just pass this judicial competition and recruit purely some foreign courts. Those who would simply pass the minimum exams on knowledge of ukrainian jurisprudence, we will not have judges because they are not well versed in ukrainian legislation, but simply the number of judges will not be recruited. Well, of course, if the question this question of the new varangians actually meant that we have about 2,000 years of history of our ukrainian civilization. It was rather pointless, but serhiy , this is of course a joke. A letter from 42, yes, 42 of velikys businesses, in particular , who met with president zelenskyi and his office, and it was about the 42nd article of the constitution, if im not mistaken, which guarantees the protection of entrepreneurship in ukraine, who complained about the arbitrariness of various regulatory bodies that all returned to some prewar rails even exceeded, worsened the situation with business inspections and so on. Unfortunately, this is the truth. To business, all these divisions of the fight against economic crime, they are really much more active now, they are a nightmare for business and very often in business they do not leave the opportunity to work in the world. Well, here is the problem that if before business was at least arbitrary, he could choose he works there with a corrupt orientation or with by the tax authorities, now the business is being dragged into a field where it cannot refuse a corrupt lease. Unfortunately, the same tax officials broke and even hacked this automatic vat refund, which was a great achievement after the maidan, is it possible or not resolved this issue of this meeting with the president systemically, of course not, uh, there are some three shurmas that work, some businessmen can apply, but even if these three were super effective, well, its all just an artificial mode of operation of these three well, i doubt that they are very effective, but this everything is not a systemic solution to the problem, but a systemic solution and an attempt to solve the systemic problem, unfortunately, it is not observed now. Well, thank you very much, mr. Serhiy serhiy fursabu, an investment banker with us , we talked a little about the problems in the economy, their approaches to the economy in ukraine in general, well, at the very end, we have to show this video because, first of all, the eye, the heart, the soul, now we can most likely understand that this yes , yes, the attack on the russian airport in the morning was just as distracting, only a maneuver, because in of reality and so it was aimed at a slightly different object, look at this column of giant smoke, i know it s my own video, which is not to the end of it. It even shows the full magnitude of this explosion, well, i dont know, can we show another video, its just , its just incredible, its incredible and it happened in the city of serhiyiv posad, it seems so. Its called that, look, god, its just an incredible pillar, which is just an incredible pillar. The Russian Emergency services write to the sotnikov mechanical plant that this is a violation of the technological process, well, even if it s like that, its good for us, because at this plant produced, in particular, products for military purposes, if there are sights for tanks, they said about it, and here is this explosion , dear friends. Thank you for being with us. Andriy saichuk lesya vakulyuk worked in this studio for you, and see further on our broadcast interview with roman vashchuk, business ombudsman and former canadian ambassador to ukraine , my name is oleksandr marchenko. Greetings. Today, in a topical interview, you will learn how not to get nervous at customs and how to avoid unnecessary tax checks. We will talk about this in detail with the business ombudsman roman vashchuk, we are in touch. Congratulations, mr. Roman, i am very glad to be with you and the audience, mr. Roman. Well, on the one hand, the government is now talking about programs, there is work, there is a restoration of these electronic programs that you can join online, take, for example, a grant for development own business, but on the other hand, the deputies returned with a majority of votes and the president signed a law stating that it is necessary to return to the prewar level of taxes for small and mediumsized businesses, and later return to tax audits, that is, these schalke scales that prevail here. You know, there is also a desire to prove to International Partners that ukraine is doing its part of the financial fiscal work, that is , there is really a lot of support for the ukrainian budget from e. E. Foreign partners e. E. In connection with that there is a demand from the International Monetary fund of others partners so that ukraine also pays its part, obviously, and the main part is about defense and the army, because most of the nondefense expenses are now financed by european, american, canadian , etc. Money, so on the one hand it is clear on the other hand, we we see a turn to traditional methods and pathology. Lets say that of the ukrainian tax system, you mentioned the checks , they seem to be the same in the final version of the law. 84. 01 is not returned for the majority of even small, medium or Large Enterprises er, only for very specific sectors, there is gaming and so on, business er, about this. I think the government will already have discussions with er, the imf er, but in general, the discussion would be different if it were possible to have a tax audit in ukraine without of a negative result, well, negative results are a process of feeling the appeal of businesses that were in your office of the butsman before the start of a fullscale invasion, when the tax audits were canceled, the statistics improved along the lines of these audits. Yes, but then the tax audits appeared invoices, which to a large extent has turned into a minitax audit through the back door. That is, you have an ee invoice, you can unlock it, it requires a conversation with the tax office. You use plastic mops in your cleaning business and so on, so they simply get by even in the very government ban on this kind of action, on the other hand , in our practice, we also saw some increase in the number of unscrupulous treasurers, because not it is possible to say so unequivocally that the entire ukrainian business is a solid angel and that is, some form of verification, some form of ee discipline for payers should have been, but it must be fair and when i mean that it should be possible to have an inspection without a negative result ee then ee coefficients or kpis of ee tax employees should include the opportunity for them to consult and work with the company so effectively that when they come to it for inspection they do not find any violations and this is counted as positive and not, but so far the traditions are such that no matter what there is, you need to find some kind of formal clue based on it, issue a tax notice, fine the company, or then it goes to us. In 90 plus percent of cases , the courts decide in favor of the business, but the money has been suspended for 1. 5 years. The budget really did not use the paper indicators of this department. The blocking of tax invoices deprives the business of working capital, which could be used for investments, well, for some kind of financing for the development of your own business. I know that you directly prepared proposals for the government , tried to reach the authorities in order to somehow speed up the unblocking of these ee invoices , some kind of procedure whether the cabinet of ministers listened to the tax part of the ee, and here not only the tax department, but the ministry of finance plays an Important Role , in particular, the part that deals with ee taxes, the ee mechanism was launched already in july of an administrative appeal, such as the payers tables, this is such a document , where you need to write out what are your input materials and expenses, and do you also know the general expansion of such opportunities for the payer, but we have not yet had month so that we will see julyaugust september to what extent do these expanded opportunities for the company not going to the Administrative Court to appeal such decisions can have some positive effect, we will look carefully in our report for the Third Quarter so this is a step is also improved opportunities to be informed in the Payers Office about the state of affairs should be written out more precisely reasons for enrollment riskiness and also administrative appeal of riskiness so here there is a certain post but we see that in the third in the first in the Second Quarter the proportion of both frozen invoices and firms e who are affected by this question . And this more than 20,000 films every month remains the same , that is, to the goal that it was voiced by memory, less that only zero integers, two tenths, invoices should stop now. We we have four, four and a half times more, i. E. 0. 8 0. 9 eh so we still need to work and work here, mr. Roman well, i have seen the statistics of complaints that come to the office of the boatswains business, a small part affects the customs, but lately i have been watching especially in social Networks Business is simply seething with indignation because of what is happening with the customs value of goods. Well, they cannot start , in particular, things that go to charity for the armed forces of ukraine to ordinary consumers. Why is the situation there now more difficult, it seems to me, even than with this blocking of tax invoices uh, so our uh, the number of cards has increased by about half, but still at a relatively low level, because the customs of the card, time is very often very important and uh, there is no time even so pretrial to understand, mostly films in oil, immediately go to court and try uh, how to solve this case , in particular, with regard to goods that may lose relevance within two weeks, uh, i think the problem is in the relative , lets say this, unclear, managed control of customs, uh, this applies to the tax office , always if there are no permanently appointed leaders from whom one could ask why a second or third ee is happening so that we know that in those ee public organizations where two ee were appointed during the last year i would say maybe even in some cases charismatic e leaders who they provide tons of things in the organization there, things can change and improve uh, where there has been an acting responsibilities for years, uh, at the middle level, people feel that there is no clear control, and in particular, at the regional level , all kinds of miracles are starting to happen uh, so i the proposal of the ee Deputy Commission that considered the problem of the web and related to those economic problems that there should be a reboot of both the tax and customs in order to permanently elect the leadership, it is very important p roman but having such ee complaints of business having such problems with the tax with the Customs Office , well, in general, is business ready to start investing in the restoration of ukraine, implement the plan for the reconstruction of our state, work to develop ones own business in the liberated deoccupied territories, are there still certain cautions are waiting for something, well, ukrainian business is used to living in such a functionally dysfunctional state, so it is developing against, lets say , traditionally developed against the circumstances, and it will agree like this, now it is investing, lets say , restoring enterprises before switching somewhere and we see that macro forecasts for this year, after all, we are increasing the consensus somewhere between five and six percent of growth, so it is clear that the vitality of the ukrainian business is counterproductive. So far, there are such in the preliminary stages, they are studying the situation. We had a conference in london last month. There were many representatives of international business. They actively photographed the presentation slides of the presentations of ukrainian economic leaders, lets say, from the government or the president s office. So i see that there is interest and the Ukrainian Government is once again better able to express its priorities. Its vision of what should be. It seems to me, mr. Roman, that these signals will become beacons for big foreign business. Well, this is the beginning of construction. The baikar plant of the Turkish Company is also an investment of the German Corporation raimetal, although it is a defense plant, but it is what shows foreign business, well, a sign that it is possible to work in ukraine , unfortunately, our time is coming to an end. The problems of our business, i am sure they will be much less in the future , in detail, we will meet with businessmen, we will talk about our own ukrainian business. 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