How the new IMF programme will affect Ukraine’s individual entrepreneurs

The Centre for Economic Strategy and colleagues from the RRR4U* consortium continue to monitor the Ukrainian government’s compliance with its commitments to international partners. We presented the monitoring of the implementation of the IMF program and the Ukraine Plan in December 2025.

This month’s special topic is: “How the new IMF programme will affect Ukraine’s individual entrepreneurs”.

On 26 November, Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund reached a staff-level agreement on a new four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) worth USD 8.1 billion.

Among the prior actions — the IMF’s conditions for approving the programme — are several unpopular steps: taxing income from digital platforms (the “OLX tax”), abolishing the EUR 150 duty-free threshold for parcels, and introducing VAT payments for individual entrepreneurs with annual revenues above UAH 1 million.

Will these potential changes benefit the economy? And how it will affect Ukraine’s individual entrepreneurs?

We will discuss these questions during the event on 29 December at 14:00 on Zoom. A recording of the event will be available on the CES YouTube and Facebook pages.

The registration is available below.

Agenda:

14:00 – 14:10 Status of implementation of the Ukraine Facility programme. Alyona Korohod, Project Expert at DiXi Group.

14:10 – 14:20 Status of Ukraine’s implementation of the IMF programme. Oleksandra Betliy, Leading research fellow at Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

14:20 – 14:30 Special topic: “How the new IMF programme will affect Ukraine’s individual entrepreneurs”, Bohdan Slutskiy, Economist at Centre for Economic Strategy.

14:30 – 15:30 Discussion with representatives of government, business, and the expert community.

Invited speakers:

• Andrii Dligach, Founder and Head of Advanter Group.
• Anton Kharytonov, Member of the National Restaurant Association of Ukraine.
• Andriy Yerashov, Head of the Analytical Center of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs (SUP).

Moderator: Hlib Vyshlinsky, CES Executive Director.

The event is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation

*RRR4U (Resilience, Reconstruction and Relief for Ukraine) is a consortium of four Ukrainian civil society organizations: the Centre for Economic Strategy, the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, the Institute for Analytics and Advocacy, and DiXi Group.

RRR4U publishes monthly monitoring reports on Ukraine’s fulfillment of the conditions of key international financial programs with the IMF and the EU. You can find previous editions on the consortium’s website – https://rrr4u.org/.