In Kharkiv, over two thousand entrepreneurs have opened businesses since the beginning of the year
During January-February 2024, 2060 individual entrepreneurs expressed a desire to start their own business and officially registered their ventures.
According to the information from the Main Department of the State Tax Service in the Kharkiv region, during the same period, 116 individual entrepreneurs (mostly from de-occupied territories) chose Kharkiv as a new location for their activities and changed their tax address.
Simultaneously, 1741 individual entrepreneurs ceased their activities in January-February, and 112 entrepreneurs relocated their businesses from Kharkiv, changing their tax address to another region or territorial community. As of March 1, the number of individual entrepreneurs in Kharkiv amounted to nearly 118,400.
The Department of Administrative Services and Consumer Market emphasized that supporting businesses during the war is one of the city's government's priority areas of work.
"The City Council is taking all possible measures to develop mechanisms for the recovery of businesses affected by the war. Over the past two years, a series of important decisions have been adopted to reduce the tax burden on entrepreneurs in our city in the conditions of wartime realities and promote the restoration of business activity," they noted.