In April, the State Tax Service exceeded by 7% the plan of receipts to the state budget, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Danylo Hetmantsev said. “The final figures as to the implementation of the plan for payments administered by the tax service for April have just come…
Moves to lift EU sanctions on Belarusian fertiliser exports, seen as a cash cow for the Minsk regime, are seeing backlash from the Baltic States and Poland. Member states have been locked in a stand-off since January over new sanctions against Belarus. Negotiators do not agree on exemptions that would facilitate the transit of Belarusian…
The International Monetary Fund has scheduled frequent reviews of the Enhanced Financing Program for Ukraine (EFF): one in the summer and one in the fall. This was stated by the Permanent Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Ukraine, Vagram Stepanyan. “The fund’s programs are evaluated through regular reviews involving IMF experts who update…
The business activity expectations index (BAEI) in Ukraine continues to demonstrate positive dynamics due to improvement in the situation in the energy sector, increase in supply of food and fuel, better inflation and exchange rate expectations and stronger consumer confidence of households. “In April, the BAEI rose to 51.5, up from 49.5 in March, exceeding…
Georgian Finance Minister Lasha Khutsishvili will join finance ministers, central bank governors and government officials from Asian Development Bank member countries in the bank’s 56th annual meeting in Incheon, Korea. The Ministry of Finance said Khutsishvili would address a session entitled Reinvigorating Regional Cooperation in Central and West Asia – the Role for the Central…
Over 67% of Poles are of the opinion that that the government will be unable to combat high inflation, a recent poll has found. Prices of consumer goods and services (Consumer Price Index, CPI) increased by 14.7% YoY and by 0.7% MoM in April, according to a flash estimate published by the Central Statistical Office…
Ukraine’s national postal operator Ukrposhta JSC has completed the year 2022 with a UAH 1.258-billion loss, CEO Ihor Smelyansky announced. In 2022, Ukrposhta saw an actual loss of UAH 1,258.1 million, of which UAH 216.9 million was due to lost assets in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and UAH 402.1…