The article deals with the issue of confidentiality of citizens’ digital data and the security of their storage on the platform of a citizen’s Digital Profile. Due to the scale of this system, as well as the value of the stored information, there is a high risk of leakage or illegal receipt of confidential data that could be of commercial value to many entities, which is why this issue is relevant. 

The article discusses some aspects of interaction between companies engaged in foreign economic operations and customs authorities. In particular, the main attention is paid to the development of digitalization processes of interaction between participants in foreign economic activity and customs authorities through the introduction of self-verification systems for the company's foreign economic operations and customs monitoring. The article has developed an automated model for assessing the company's foreign economic activity, and also investigated the main aspects of the institution of customs monitoring. Particular attention is paid to the use of the customs monitoring system as a tool for automating control over the activities of authorized economic operators.

The article is devoted to the assessment of the effectiveness of tax regulation in the field of foreign economic activity of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The article reveals the essence of the taxation process in the field of foreign trade, its principles, methods and main tools.

From the standpoint of a comparative analysis, the author considers the problems of combining entrepreneurship and planning inherent in the industrial and post-industrial economies. It is shown that the level of importance of planning in entrepreneurial activity is significantly influenced not only by the dominant position of the buyer or manufacturer (and seller) in the market, but also by the phase of the cycle of economic activity. It has been demonstrated that without the proper attitude of entrepreneurs to planning and a stake on instant success, it is impossible to achieve sustainable development and stable profitability in the medium and long term. Recommendations are formulated to ensure a rational combination of entrepreneurship and planning in a post-industrial economy.

The global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to look at development issues in a new way. As a result, many decision-makers have realized the importance of rebuilding economies with a sustainable development approach that involves investing not in fossil fuels but in renewable energies, reforestation, sustainable food systems, and cyclical, local and low-carbon economies. In this connection, the article considers food sharing as one of the possible mechanisms contributing to the achievement of sustainable development goals and at the same time being an anti-crisis management tool. At the same time, this article gives directly the goals in the field of sustainable development, the state of affairs in the field of achieving the set goals in modern realities, the measures taken at the international level and in Russia, the essence of food sharing is also revealed, examples of foreign practices are given, problems that impede development are identified of food sharing in Russia, possible options for their solutions are proposed and promising results after its implementation are reflected, as well as a table with the effect of food sharing on specific goals of sustainable development has been compiled by the generalization method. This article can be useful to people interested in the rational use of food, businesses in order to restructure business processes to meet the requirements of the modern economy and government officials for timely and effective adoption of measures in the field of sustainable development.