Fine up to 17 thousand hryvnias: Ukrainians face punishment due to money.

Starting from 2025, a requirement for establishing payment terminals for cashless transactions has spread in Ukraine. Now, small businesses in small settlements must also accept card payments through terminals.

If entrepreneurs do not comply with this rule, serious financial fines await them. They cannot restrict customers' choices of payment methods and force them to pay only in cash.

There are exceptions to these rules for first-group tax entrepreneurs who operate through vending machines, as well as for those who operate in active combat zones or in occupied territories. For them, the installation of payment terminals is not mandatory.

• First-group tax entrepreneurs who trade through vending machines, work as street vendors, or sell their own produce (grown or cultivated by themselves);
• entrepreneurs in active combat zones and in occupied territories (the exemption applies for three months after the end of hostilities or de-occupation).

Fines ranging from 1,700 to 3,400 hryvnias for the first violation, and from 8,500 to 17,000 hryvnias for repeated violations within a year are stipulated for breaking these rules, according to the Code of Administrative Offenses.

Starting from 2025, Ukrainian entrepreneurs must install payment terminals for accepting cashless payments; otherwise, serious financial fines await them. Exceptions to this rule include first-group tax entrepreneurs who operate through vending machines and those who operate in conflict zones or occupied territories.