1. Ukraine may become the second country in the world, after Singapore, with which Great Britain is preparing to adopt a digital trade agreement. In particular, the agreement will provide for mutual recognition of the legal force of electronic signatures. Given the increased interest of Ukrainian furniture makers in the British market, such innovation will undoubtedly be useful to them as well.

2. FOPs and legal entities with an income of less than UAH 10 billion. received an opportunity from the state in April to switch to paying a single tax for the 3rd group at a rate of 2%. But, as it turned out, in practice, it was not profitable for everyone. Therefore, according to the November law No. 2719-IX, the taxpayer has the right to independently (by submitting an application) refuse the two percent taxation and return to the taxation system he was in before choosing the simplified one.

3. If we choose among the variety of business strategies, then, according to experts, the most relevant for the present time is the strategy of adaptation, which involves: 1) continuous, almost round-the-clock monitoring of markets and the state of the economy; flexibility of company managers, because it is becoming the main feature of Ukrainian business; launching new small projects and quickly determining which of them has a chance to be successful in the current realities.

4. Despite constant threats and more than 665 hours of air alarms, the capital is actively digitized with the help of the “Kyiv digital” application. More than 4,000 entrepreneurs have contacted the app development team to activate their business data. This will allow you to create your own map with active institutions, an alternative to Google maps, which has been closed since the beginning of the war.

5. “Online Kasa” in partnership with Visa is introducing a new service that integrates accepting payments through a smartphone into the messenger. In the “Online Cashier” chatbot, you can register PPO in the tax office and conduct full accounting reporting: account for goods and track balances, connect fiscalization, generate receipts for purchases or payment of services, as well as perform service deposits and service withdrawals and automatically form Z -report.

6. The National Commission for Securities and Stock Markets introduced changes in the functioning of the management bodies of joint-stock companies for the period of martial law. Currently, general meetings of shareholders can be held exclusively by remote voting. However, the procedure for conducting them requires different preparation than that practiced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

7. Now is the time to introduce investment banking in Ukraine, which will offer securities management services to potential investors, and to businesses, instead of the usual lending, the implementation of the issue, and placement of their securities. In this way, companies in need of affordable financing get interested investors and cash, and investors get high guarantees of returns and profits.

8. Fully aware that in times of war, laughter is also a weapon of Ukrainians, ViYar became a sponsor of several teams of the national “Laughter League”, which returned to the television screen and the Internet in the fall. With the help of  “Laughter League”, the company popularizes its online service site “ViYar-Bazaar”, where the furniture customer can find a furniture maker, and the furniture maker can find a client.

9. In the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a factory with an educational bias will be created for practical training, retraining, and advanced training of specialists in the furniture industry. Training modules will be offered for six professional profiles – from woodworking to design. Every year, the educational factory will professionally improve 200 furniture makers.

10. The EGGER concern, a powerful global producer of plate materials, records a significant reduction in sales of its products this year. Factories in Eastern Europe recorded the biggest decline in revenue, which is associated with the war in Ukraine. In the goods category, the demand for floor coverings, as well as for goods from the Do-It-Yourself sector, decreased.