Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, failed to put several key bills on its agenda that are required for financial support from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Lawmakers lacked enough votes to proceed, RBC-Ukraine reported during a live broadcast of the session.
The failed vote concerned two bills — No. 13620 and No. 14067 — tied to funding under the EU’s Ukraine Facility program, as well as Bill No. 14025, which is linked to IMF assistance.
Bill No. 14025, covering taxation of income from digital platforms and changes to banking regulations, received only 113 votes — far below the required 226.
Together with Bill No. 14026, it forms a government initiative to tax earnings from digital marketplaces, dubbed the “OLX tax.”
For the IMF, Bill No. 14025 is a prior action, a mandatory step for launching a new four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program worth $8.2 billion.
The IMF has made approval of the program conditional on several reforms, including the introduction of digital platform taxation.
Although the bills were previously backed by the parliamentary tax committee for first reading, lawmakers failed to move them forward in the second reading.
Meanwhile, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, central bank chief Andrii Pyshnyi, and business leaders.
Her last visit to Ukraine was in February 2023.
