Prime
Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko
accepts amending the State Budget for 2009 in May. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told during the
general portback election meeting of the Association
of Ukrainian Cities and Communities.
The
Head of Government proposes to amend the Budget Code concerning the extension
of financing of the regions already next week. According to her, this will
allow to amend the State Budget-2009 already in May, Government portal reported.
At the same time the
Prime Minister urged the mayors to revise all inefficient budget outlays of
their cities. “You have to revise all inefficient outlays, because we should count
every copeck while reconsidering the state budget in
May,” Yulia Tymoshenko
noted.
The Head of Government
stressed that the State Budget-2009 situation is challenging because of the
crisis, so it is impossible to plan the large increase in outlays for local
budgets at the moment. She informed that because of the decrease in import and the
hryvnia devaluation, the Budget receipts from customs
duties had decreased. At the same time, according to her, the receipts from the
State Tax Administration in January this year totaling 106%, and the February forecast
– 102%. According to her, further development of the situation will depend on
the banking system and trends of the world economy.
Yulia Tymoshenko
also said that Government would work through mechanisms for solving the issues
on local budgets’ unbalance within the nearest two weeks. The Head of
Government emphasized that local budgets had been approved earlier than the
contracts of gas supply. That’s why, according to her, we face the problem of
local budgets’ unbalance. “521 million hryvnias in
tote for the country, we will succeed in balancing this position,” Yulia Tymoshenko stressed.
