The Ministry of Agrarian Policy plans to cancel the import duty on cattle to restore the industry
Over the past 10 years, the number of cattle and small ruminants has decreased by 40% in Ukraine. The number of cattle (cattle) decreased from 4826.7 thousand heads to 2874.0 thousand heads, small cattle (small cattle - sheep and goats) – from 1832.5 thousand heads to 1140.4. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
The members of the working group of the specialized industry believe that an effective way out of this situation is to abolish the import duty on live cattle and small cattle. They note that for 1 UAH of unreceived duty on the import of cattle, the state budget will receive 5 UAH of taxes, including through the payment of VAT.
The calculation is as follows: 5 thousand heads of cattle weighing 200 kg are imported into Ukraine; it takes 260 days to fatten it up to 600 kg. The cost of keeping one animal is 85 UAH / day or 22 thousand UAH in total. Taking into account all taxes from economic activities, income from animal meat to the state budget will amount to more than UAH 14,500 / head. compared with about 2800 UAH, which are not received by the budget from taxes on import. That is, for 5 thousand heads the state budget can receive UAH 73 million.
Deputy Minister of the Agro-Industrial Complex Taras Vysotsky noted that this issue had already been raised at the previous meeting of the Agrarian Committee.
“The Ministry of Agrarian Policy fully supports the vision of specialized organizations of livestock breeders to solve the problem of developing animal husbandry, at the same time it makes it possible to strengthen food security, as well as increase revenues to the state budget more than 5 times. Therefore, we proposed to bring together all the initiatives within a few days in order to discuss this comprehensively at the next meeting of the Committee and start developing an appropriate draft law,” said Taras Vysotsky.
Solving the problem, in particular, requires amending the Customs Tariff of Ukraine.
Earlier we wrote that the purchase prices for pork have remained unchanged for more than a month.