Danylo Hetmantsev

In 2020-2021 Hetmantsev initiated imposing the obligation to use cash register devices on all private entrepreneurs of the 1st and 2nd groups, which provoked mass protests among members of these groups. On January 1, 2022, the reform came into force. Hetmantsev explained the protests by the reluctance of "smugglers and converters" to lose the earnings they received from tax evasion.

In May 2022, Hetmantsev stated that he considered it appropriate to resume tax audits of businesses not affected by the war, and raise taxes, as well as introduce many subsidies for different types of businesses.

According to the investigations of Ukrainian journalist and special services, Hetmantsev often quotes and supports messages of Russian Telegram-channels, along with pro-Russian politician from "Servants of the People" Maksym Buzhanskyi and host of the banned pro-Russian TV channel NASH Maksym Nazarov. For example, Hetmantsev supported the Kremlin's Telegram channel, which worked for the Kremlin and spread fakes about the "capture of Kyiv and Mykolayiv" on February 24, 2022.

The day before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 23, 2022, Hetmantsev proposed "choosing math over patriotism," calling for active trade with Russia, and saying that European and US sanctions against Russia were ineffective.

He believes that Ukraine in 2021 has not reached the level of GDP of the Ukrainian SSR, although economists point out that Ukraine after 2016 has much higher GDP and key welfare of Ukrainians than in the Ukrainian SSR, even despite the war with Russia in 2014.

In the parliamentary elections of 2019, he was included in the list of the party "Servant of the People" under №20.

In the summer of 2019, during the parliamentary elections, he called for the restoration of water supply from mainland Ukraine to Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.

On December 19, 2019, Hetmantsev, the Chairman of the Parliament Committee on Finance, Banking, Tax and Customs Policy, initiated a draft bill № 2634 (also known as “Google tax”), according to which Google, Facebook and Youtube had to pay 20% VAT to Ukrainian state budget. As a result, the cost of services to consumers increased by 20%.

In 2019, he proposed banning private entrepreneurs from providing services, but instead allowing them to perform only trade and production activities. According to Hetmantsev, this measure can help combat tax evasion.

In 1995, Hetmantsev graduated from the Ukrainian Humanities Lyceum of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU). In 2000 he obtained diploma with honors at the Faculty of Law of KNU.

Danylo Oleksandrovych Hetmantsev (Ukrainian: Данило Олександрович Гетманцев; born April 26, 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and a Member of the Verkhovna Rada of pro-Russian views, gambling tycoon, Chairman of the Parliament Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy. He has populist and regressive economic views.