{"id":1356580,"date":"2022-03-03T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356580"},"modified":"2022-03-03T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:08:43","slug":"tanks-a-lot-ukraine-declares-spoils-of-war-from-russia-tax-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tanks-a-lot-ukraine-declares-spoils-of-war-from-russia-tax-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanks a Lot! Ukraine Declares Spoils of War from Russia Tax-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftanks-a-lot-ukraine-declares-spoils-of-war-from-russia-tax-free%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-456744086-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Ukrainian government has announced that spoils of war, such as Russian tanks taken from the battlefield, will not be considered as taxable income.<\/p>\n<p>Amid footage appearing on social media purporting to show Ukrainian farmers towing away Russian tanks with tractors, Ukraine\u2019s National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption issued <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/website?sl=auto&#038;tl=en&#038;hl=en&#038;client=webapp&#038;u=https:\/\/nazk.gov.ua\/uk\/documents\/roz-yasnennya-vid-28-02-2022-2-shhodo-zastosuvannya-okremyh-polozhen-zakonu-ukrayiny-pro-zapobigannya-koruptsiyi-stosovno-zahodiv-finansovogo-kontrolyu-v-umovah-voyennogo-stanu\/?hilite\">guidance<\/a> saying that the \u201cacquisition of objects seized from the racist [Russian] army\u201d does not need to be declared on tax filings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a press release on Monday, the NAPC <a href=\"https:\/\/en.interfax.com.ua\/news\/general\/804441.html\">said<\/a>: \u201cHave you captured a Russian tank or armoured personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the Motherland! There is no need to declare the captured Russian tanks and other equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining that spoils of war will not have been \u201cacquired not as a result of a transaction\u201d but rather as a result of the \u201cfull-scale aggression of the Russian Federation\u201d, the government agency said that as a result Russian equipment should not be considered as taxable and are essentially up for grabs for the average Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>The document went on to state that the value of \u201chostile military equipment, weapons and other armour\/scrap\u201d that is obtained is \u201cimpossible\u201d to define, and therefore can not be evaluated whether exceeds the declaration of gains threshold which is set at 248,100 UAH (\u00a36,161\/$8,259).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>It was also clarified by the agency that those who receive funds to fight the war effort will not have to declare it as \u201cpersonal income\u201d as it is being considered a \u201cmanifestation of the unity and cohesion of the Ukrainian people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The pronouncement comes after the genre of Ukranian farmer stealing Russian tanks has become a viral video genre in its own right. The clips are generally difficult to verify as genuine, or the actual context surrounding the towing, but clearly the official announcement that Russian tanks are free for the taking undeniably demonstrates it is a trend Kyiv wishes to encourage.<\/p>\n<p>Some clues do exist, however.\u00a0One clip was shared by the \u2018Armed Forces of Ukraine\u2019 account which, despite not being \u2018blue tick\u2019 verified by Twitter is nevertheless frequently \u2018shared\u2019 by verified official government accounts, shows a\u00a01960\u2019s Soviet-era\u00a09K33 Osa surface to air missile rig being towed away. The unit is used by both the Russian and Ukrainian armies, but its painted camouflage appears to be of a Russian type.<\/p>\n<p>In another widely-shared video, a towed AFV bears the distinctive \u2018Z\u2019 marking of the Russian invasion force peculiar to this conflict, suggesting that it was at least recorded in the past week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"uk\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0446\u0456 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0436\u0443\u044e\u0442\u044c \u0437\u0431\u0438\u0440\u0430\u044e\u0442\u0438 \u043b\u044e\u0442\u043d\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0439 \u0432\u0440\u043e\u0436\u0430\u0439 <br \/>\u041f\u0440\u0430\u0446\u044e\u0454 \u0430\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0440\u043d\u0430 \u0444\u0456\u0440\u043c\u0430 &#8220;\u0411\u0430\u0442\u044c\u043a\u0456\u0432\u0449\u0438\u043d\u0430&#8221;\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BergILS4Cc\">pic.twitter.com\/BergILS4Cc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0412\u041e\u0407\u041d\u0418 \u0423\u041a\u0420\u0410\u0407\u041d\u0418\ud83c\uddfa (@ArmedForcesUkr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmedForcesUkr\/status\/1498249867054960641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ru\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0411\u0440\u043e\u0448\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0430\u0440\u043c\u0438\u0438 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vr6FzyrCbW\">pic.twitter.com\/Vr6FzyrCbW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IgorGirkin (@GirkinGirkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GirkinGirkin\/status\/1499002824675450881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some tragi-comedy \u2026 A Ukrainian tractor stealing a Russian tank <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/inLwffthJE\">pic.twitter.com\/inLwffthJE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eugene Katchalov (@EugeneKatchalov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EugeneKatchalov\/status\/1498027005262147592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The announcement from the government on tax-free tanks comes amid a flurry of unorthodox strategies from the Zelensky government during the war.<\/p>\n<p>From the early days of the invasion, the Ukrainian government announced that it would hand out weapons to civilians to fight the Russian military, with officials claiming that they have distributed over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/25\/ukraine-says-it-has-handed-out-18000-weapons-to-citizens\/\">18,000 guns<\/a> to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will give weapons to anyone who wants to defend our country,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/25\/ukraine-says-it-has-handed-out-18000-weapons-to-citizens\/\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter on Thursday, adding: \u201cBe ready to support Ukraine in the squares of our cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Zelensky government has also urged citizens to store up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/27\/ukrainian-civilians-make-molotov-cocktails-to-fight-russia\/\">Molotov cocktails<\/a> in their homes in order to throw at the Russian \u201cinvaders.<\/p>\n<p>The government later decided to free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/28\/jailbreak-zelensky-says-ukraine-to-free-inmates-with-combat-experience\/\">prison convicts <\/a>with \u201creal combat\u201d experience if they pledged to pick up arms against Putin\u2019s forces in the \u201chottest\u201d areas of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky has also called on able-bodied Europeans and other foreign men to come and join the newly forged \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/01\/zelensky-calls-for-flooding-ukraine-with-foreign-fighters-to-push-back-russia\/\">International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine<\/a>\u201d. In order to facilitate the process, visa requirements have been waived for those willing to fight for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Well-Regulated Militia\u2026 Ukraine Gives Guns to Citizens \u2018To Defend Our Country\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vRxTb2d4TL\">https:\/\/t.co\/vRxTb2d4TL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1496851407005233153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian government has announced that spoils of war, such as Russian tanks taken from the battlefield, will not be considered as taxable income. 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