1. Payers who have been paying 2% of the tax rate since August can submit an application to refuse its application and indicate which tax system they wish to switch to. Without submitting an application, the payer is automatically transferred to the system on which he was before the election of 2% EP. Those who have already switched to the general system in the current year can again switch to the simplified one.

2. From August 1 of this year and until the end of the martial law, a moratorium is established on conducting documentary checks on the payment of the single social contribution. However, the State Tax Service may conduct unscheduled documentary checks on separate grounds provided for by the provisions of the Tax Code.

3. Taxpayers are exempted from liability for violations in the field of cash registers, committed between January 1, 2022 and October 1, 2023, as well as for violations in the field of payment of the EUV, committed from the beginning of martial law and until August 1 of this year.

4. Due to the growing tendency of companies and organizations to switch to remote work, owners of office real estate in the world’s leading cities began to lose profits catastrophically. To keep tenants, rent is reduced. Of course, the wave of significant rent devaluation will also reach Ukraine.

5. In Ukraine, there is significant discrimination in the remuneration of men and women. According to the State Statistics Service, before the war women earned an average of 18.6% less than men. The government decided to intervene in the situation, so the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine developed a strategy to overcome the gender pay gap by 2030.

6. Our country was the first in the world to launch an innovative program to improve online payments in e-commerce. Digital Authentication Framework (DAF) was created by specialists of the state-owned PrivatBank and the Visa international payment system, the companies said in a joint statement.

7. 25 sheets of flexible plywood, three sheets of MDF, 10 thousand staples and several damaged matrices. And all this in order to create the visual effect of a sheet of paper bending under the influence of a fireplace fire. This is the look of a part of the private housing project, which was completed by the company “BASSA” together with the studio “MAKHNO” and which is considered special and even legendary due to its originality.

8. In July, the US stock market fell by more than 300 points. Unlike other recent market declines that have left the furniture sector “unscathed,” July’s decline appears likely to send U.S. furniture inventories falling in roughly equal proportion to the decline in the overall market.

9. The well-known furniture-making machine tool company Homag is forced to adapt to the current difficult market situation, because in the first half of the year the number of orders fell to a record 671 million euros due to the fact that, as the company explains, “customers have become more cautious due to high inflation rates and interest rates”.

10. The Swedish company “IKEA” is training employees of its call centers as interior design consultants and expanding the list of remote services for customers simultaneously with the deployment of technologies based on artificial intelligence.