The free transfer of state and municipal land is prohibited during martial law, but a direct exception applies to owners of buildings standing on the plot (sub-paragraph 5 of paragraph 27 of…
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Where two people claim the same plot of land, priority goes not to whoever applied first or obtained a permit first, but to the one on whose land management project the plot…
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The automatic one-year renewal of farmland leases without the parties’ consent applied only to leases whose term expired after martial law was introduced and before 19 November 2022 (sub-paragraph 1 of paragraph…
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An encroachment on part of your plot is remedied by an action under Article 391 of the Civil Code, to which no limitation period applies: you can go to court even ten…
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You do not have to return to Ukraine. The application to accept an estate is sent to the notary by post with a certified signature, or filed with an electronic signature, and…
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Family members of the first and second degrees of kinship (children, parents, a spouse, full siblings, grandparents, grandchildren) pay 0%. Other resident heirs pay 5% income tax plus the 5% military levy,…
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Ukraine receives data on its residents’ foreign accounts under the CRS standard, and since 3 August 2026 the tax service has also had automated access to the border service’s records of border…
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Privatisation requires the written consent of every adult family member permanently living in the flat, those temporarily absent included (Article 8(2) of Law No. 2482-XII). Anyone who does not want to become…
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Losing the allocation order does not lose you the right to privatise. The right to occupy is proved by the tenancy agreement, the certificate of registered residence, an extract from the house…
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A business created or acquired during a marriage is divisible, but what is divided is its value and its income, not the business itself. From a sole trader’s income you first deduct…
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