The Cabinet of Ministers intends to initiate increasing UST rate for the companies with harmful working conditions and the companies with first list jobs, Financial club reports.
“Today, the unified social tax rate is 22%. There were proposals on returning to the larger tax rate, however, the government passed the decision on retaining the amount at the same level”, Minister of Social Policy Andrei Reva said.
The amount of the rate, according to the minister, will increase only for the companies with harmful working conditions: by 15% for the companies with first list jobs and by 7% for second list.
The minister noted that this increase is related with the agreement with employers and trade unions.
In addition, the increase of the rate will become the resource for early retirement of such employees.
