The
Government allocates UAH 430 million for compensation of credit rates for agricultural enterprises, energy and engineering, introduces a system of
electronic tax administration of VAT and is to submit to the Parliament a bill on radical reforming of a single social fee, said Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at a press conference on Thursday, July 31.
Arsenit Yatsenyuk noted that the Government’s amendments to the State budget provide UAH 430 million USD for compensation of interest rates on loans taken by Ukrainian agrarians, the energy sector and machinery construction, including "Ukrzaliznytsya": "By the end of this year, it will give an opportunity to get extra UAH 10 billion of loans to the Ukrainian
economy and spend them on the village, engineering and energy."
The
Prime Minister also announced that at the next session of the Parliament the Government will submit a bill on radical reforming of the single social fee aimed at reducing rates and broadening the tax base.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk noted that Parliament has backed a proposed by the
Government new system of VAT electronic administration: "The most corrupted
tax in the country is a value-added tax. Today we’ve put an end to VAT laundering, to a VAT UAH 20 billion-profit
per year, as well as unrecovered VAT."
This
system, according to
the PM, shall enter into force from January 1, 2015: "It means only one thing: the one who is an honest taxpayer shall pay the value added tax and get a refund without having to wait for months and sometimes years; and that the one who wants to make a fortune out
of VAT, shall not even
get to a banking institution to put a payment order and illegally steal VAT from the State budget."
"In
these extraordinary
circumstances we managed to convince MPs that we should close a “loophole” for VAT corruption," he emphasized.
The
Prime Minister addressed to international partners: "All we promise, we are performing. The
Government of Ukraine announced to
the whole world that we would balance the budget, we would fight against shadow schemes, spend only what we actually earn, and thus stimulate
the Ukrainian economy.
"We
will continue to work on a package of reforms and to fight for the country. I’ve
told you that I will not give up without a fight. The fight has taken place. We’ve
won it," the PM said.