Also beer will be treated as alcohol beverage and get its own tax stamps
The Ministry of Revenue and Duties offers to include beer into alcoholic beverages and increase its excise duty up to 2.43 UAH per liter (current rate is 0.87 UAH/l), as laid out by the draft law published by the MRD.
Because beer will be included into alcoholic beverages, it will also require putting excise stamps (this applies not only to beer, but other low alcohol beverages as well).
According to the MRD experts, the introduction this law will bring to the budget extra 2.6 billion UAH annually.
According to the published document, beer is considered a «beverage with volume of alcohol of 0.5% to 8.5%». At the same time products with alcohol content from 1.2% to 0.5% are considered low alcohol drinks.
