{"id":57860,"date":"2022-02-16T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57860"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:53:05","slug":"samsung-applies-for-diia-city-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/samsung-applies-for-diia-city-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung applies for Diia City residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics has applied for residency under Ukraine&#8217;s Diia City special legal regime. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mykhailofedorov.com.ua\/posts\/998756180741901\">reported<\/a> by Ukraine&#8217;s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov.<\/p>\n<p>The official Samsung Electronics online store opened in Ukraine in December 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">16 February 2022 | 13:44<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mintsyfra\/2558\">Ministry of Digital Transformation&#8217;s Telegram channel<\/a>, the status of a Diia City resident has already been conferred on <a href=\"https:\/\/city.diia.gov.ua\/registry\/resident\">55 Ukrainian and international IT companies<\/a>. Samsung has joined their number.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the minister, within three days of the launch of Diia City more than 50 companies filed applications to join.<\/p>\n<p>Among the early contenders were the Ukrainian company Reface, whose face-swapping mobile app has racked up 100 million downloads in 14 months, and the Roosh project, which creates products based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAt the Diia Summit, Revolut <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/revolut-becomes-the-first-diia-city-resident\">announced<\/a> its intention to become a resident, along with American UST and one of Ukraine&#8217;s largest IT companies SoftServe,\u201d \u2014 said Mykhailo Fedorov.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He added that the special legal and tax regime for IT companies will enable Ukraine by 2025 to increase the industry\u2019s revenues from $6 billion to $18 billion, and to raise the number of jobs to 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2021, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/zelensky-signs-law-creating-diia-city\">signed<\/a> the basic law on creating the Diia City special legal regime. It provides a special tax model for IT companies, the introduction of elements of English law to attract investment, and a separate procedure for interaction with state supervisory authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The provisions of the law will remain in force for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates, and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics has applied for residency under Ukraine&#8217;s Diia City special legal regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2013,1585,16],"class_list":["post-57860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-diia-city","tag-samsung","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57862,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57860\/revisions\/57862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}