The U.S. Congress has registered a bill to raise taxes for businesses in russia and belarus.
This was reported by the people's deputy of the party "Holos" Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
"The authors of the bill titled "The Support Ukraine Through Our Tax Code Act" are Congressmen: Jared Golden, Don Bacon, Salud Carbajal, Jim Byrd, and Adam Kinzinger. "All of them are members of the bipartisan "For Country", a group of veteran congressmen who have repeatedly advocated for more support and arms for Ukraine," he wrote on a Telegram channel.
The bill would equate the activities of a (U.S.) company in russia and belarus to those in North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Cuba, which would automatically mean significant tax increases for those companies.
"Russia's war cannot and should not be financed by taxes paid by American companies. This is common sense policy: If a company decides to do business in russia - and thus pay taxes to finance its war machine - the American people should not pay the bills of such companies," a joint statement from the congressmen reads.
A similar bill has been introduced in the Senate by Ron Wyden, head of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and Rob Portman, a member of the Finance Committee, he said.
The congressmen's statement can be found at the link.