Ukrainian companies increased retail trade by 17.9% YoY in the first half of 2019, according to the State Statistics Service. In January-June the retail turnover of retail trade enterprises (legal entities) amounted to UAH 363.8 billion. The leader in terms of retail trade in the first half of 2019 was the city of Kyiv (UAH…
Over $5 billion in foreign investment entered Ukraine in the past three months. “For the first time in the last five years, these are neither budget funds, nor politically motivated money, nor those from the IMF or the World Bank. Even despite the lack of cooperation with the IMF, foreign investors have started to invest,”…
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said that the government was considering broadening the property tax base and taxing polluting cars. The International Monetary Fund and the European Commission have called on Lithuania for years to broaden its property tax base. Last year, the government moved to tax second, third and further residential properties owned by one…
Revenues from single social contribution totaling UAH 131.4 billion were transferred to the state budget in the first half of 2019, according to the data provided by the State Fiscal Service. “In January-June revenues from the single social contribution for compulsory state social insurance totaled UAH 131.4 billion, up by UAH 23.6 billion or by…
On July 18 a working forum with the participation of entrepreneurs organized by the ministries of economy and agriculture was held in Khirdalan city. As part of the forum, the participants were given detailed information about the mechanism for obtaining preferential loans from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund under the Ministry of Economy, presentations were held…
Over the two quarters of the year, the budgets of local self-government bodies have increased up to UAH 139 billion. “This means that the budgets of local communities can reach the level of 290 billion by the end of this year,” Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities of Ukraine…
Industrial production output in Latvia in May when compared to the same period of 2018 increased by 1.7%, which was a more rapid growth rate than the average in the EU, according to data published by Eurostat. Among the EU member states for which data was available, industrial output growth was more rapid in Denmark…