MP Yuzhanina initiates expansion of tax benefits for import of some types of generators

Member of Parliament from the European Solidarity faction, member of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy Nina Yuzhanina is initiating temporary benefits for the import of the most popular generator models for the period of energy supply restrictions caused by Russian shelling.

"We have been living in conditions of full-scale war for the fourth year now. And during this time, Ukraine’s energy system has become one of the enemy’s key targets. The destruction of energy facilities in 2022, starting in November, in 2025, and especially the massive attacks at the beginning of 2026 led not just to an electricity shortage, they led to chronic instability of electricity supply throughout the country. Stabilization and emergency blackouts have become not an exception for Ukrainians, but simply the norm. And after missile strikes, we have prolonged complete power outages in entire regions. And in these conditions, the state has actually shifted responsibility for energy security, for electricity supply to businesses and citizens," Yuzhanina explained at a briefing on Friday.

According to her, in practice, enterprises, small businesses, apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, and private households are forced to independently provide themselves with electricity. "People are buying inverters, batteries, generators, often purchasing them abroad with their own funds, because there is a very large shortage today. And what do they face? Over the past two weeks, a lot of people called who were stuck at customs with purchased equipment, because it turns out that some equipment is exempt from customs duties and VAT, and some is not," Yuzhanina stated.

She recalled that today legislation exempts from customs duties inverters of any capacity, lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of over 100 Ah, solar panels, wind generators, and gasoline generators with a capacity of over 7.5 kW.

At the same time, gasoline generators with a capacity of up to 7.5 kW, as well as diesel generators of any capacity, are not exempt from customs duties at all, Yuzhanina notes.

"Generators up to 7.5 kW are the standard for a private house, for an apartment, even for a small shop, or diesel generators, which are currently installed in the vast majority – in apartment buildings, in hospitals, in business centers, in industry. Why should these people who import such equipment pay import duties and plus another 20% value added tax? In fact, these are taxes on survival," the MP noted.

According to her, the bill she proposed does not require funds from the budget and only "eliminates discrimination between types of electric generator units."

"We propose to add to the current preferential list all diesel generators from the smallest up to 7.5 kW to industrial ones. Include gasoline generators up to 7.5 kW, which today are the most common for the population. And do this for the period of martial law, but no later than January 1, 2029," the MP explains.

"I ask you to support this bill, and literally in the first days of the Verkhovna Rada session demand to consider it under the Ad-Hoc procedure in order to help people and businesses survive during this difficult time for the country," Yuzhanina added.