Ukraine wants to ban the sale of Russian 1C software, which is used by 80% of Ukrainian businesses
If Russian software was purchased before the law came into force, its use will be allowed
The Verkhovna Rada has registered a draft law that would ban the sale of 1C tax and accounting software in Ukraine, which was created using program code written in the language of the aggressor country.
Under the provisions of the draft law, the use of the software will be subject to a fine of 1,000 minimum wages. For repeated violations within a year, the fine will be 2000 minimum wages (the same amount of fine remains in case of violation for the third or more times in a year), Ekonomichna Pravda reports.
At the same time, tax and accounting software purchased (put into circulation) before the entry into force of this law, which was created using program code written in the language of the aggressor country, can be used by enterprises (except for state and municipal ones) on a legal basis.
As noted in the explanatory note to the document, despite the sanctions imposed against Russia, Ukrainian companies continue to use the Russian 1C and its analogues.
"In Ukraine, their dominant position in the market has been preserved, which is more than 80% of businesses (with a volume of services worth more than UAH 0.5 billion), which one way or another remain users and continue to purchase tax and accounting software, the program code of which is written in the language of the aggressor country," the explanatory note says.
Background. As a reminder, the NACP added a top manager of Bacardi to the list of candidates for sanctions – it is Yakimov, who previously served as the head of Bacardi's Ukrainian office.
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