Poroshenko: National Bank should take measures to stop servicing accounts within military operation area
KYIV. Nov 15 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree putting into effect a National Security and Defense Council resolution of November 4 proposing that the National Bank of Ukraine take measures within a month to make sure that bank accounts of enterprises and individuals in the military operation area in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are not serviced.
The decree suggests that "the National Bank of Ukraine should take measures within a month's period of time so that banks stop servicing accounts, including card ones, opened for businesses of all forms of ownership and individuals in certain territories within the area of the antiterrorist operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,"
The government has also been given one month to draw up a bill for submitting it to the Verkhovna Rada on amending the Ukrainian Budget Code concerning specifics of mutual settlements between the Ukrainian national budget and local budgets and take measures to introduce a special procedure for accounting taxpayers and the taxes and levies paid by them to the budgets in pursuing their economic activities in certain territories within the area of the military operation.
