Events and activities: the key points in brief
For VARES, 2025 was the year of an active start and systematic work on the main thing: honest rules, legalization …
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Latest news and updates from VARES.
VARES Association became a member of the National Platform of Small and Medium Business
NP MSB is a public union that unites business associations and entrepreneurs throughout Ukraine. Its purpose is to protect the …
Excise-paid Nicobuster vs. “gift” illegal product: who may come knocking
There is already a retail outlet in Ukraine that works officially — it sells excise Nicobuster, pays taxes and keeps …
New draft law on introducing VAT for sole proprietors from 2027
📢 🔔Recently, a draft law has been actively discussed, which provides for the mandatory registration of a much wider range …
BEB: legalizing Nicobuster as a path out of the shadow market
In the last interview, the director of the Bureau of Economic Security, Oleksandr Tsyvinsky, voiced a position that the market …
How to distinguish a legal device from an illegal one
Full verification is done through customs and fiscal documents, but there are obvious markers that help you quickly understand whether …
Kantar study: when analytics fails to distinguish between device and liquid
Kantar Ukraine recently published a study of the electronic cigarette market. We at VARES have carefully read it and sincerely …
VARES Black Store Map
One of the strategic goals of the VARES Association is to create a universal tool that will allow displaying the …
From the first day: changes that will shake the market
From the first date, the Tax Code clearly prohibits the free transfer of nicotine. That is, now it is clearly …