In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat

An anonymous reader writes "According to the new tax law (Google translation; Russian original) that is being developed now and should take effect on January 1, 2011, it will not be possible for a private Ukrainian entrepreneur to provide any services to foreign companies without becoming a full-fledged company with a dedicated bookkeeper. Currently it is possible to perform such services and pay the equivalent of $25 in tax. Instead of raising the tax (which is overall welcomed by the community), the legislators plan to outlaw ISP, e-commerce, and Internet-based services mdash; along with any services provided to foreign entities mdash; for individual entrepreneurs. So starting in 2011, freelancers in Ukraine will have several choices: stop doing freelance work, start working illegally, become a full-fledged company subject to multiple cumbersome rules for taxation, or leave the country."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F10%2F06%2F15%2F2256227%2FIn-Ukraine-IT-Freelancing-Under-Threat" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=In+Ukraine%2C+IT+Freelancing+Under+Thr eat%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcpWcsI" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/15/2256227/In-Ukraine-IT-Freelancing-Under-Threat?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EX2XAynfsS2YezyQ8nBr_TvPh8w/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EX2XAynfsS2YezyQ8nBr_TvPh8w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EX2XAynfsS2YezyQ8nBr_TvPh8w/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EX2XAynfsS2YezyQ8nBr_TvPh8w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/pcMfgMcigZE" height="1" width="1"/

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