The IMF has begun the budget reading

I. about. Minister of Finance Igor Umansky said that the IMF”s Finance Ministry has sent the preliminary results of the implementation of the state budget in 2009, but the fund has requested more detailed information that the government will provide for one or two weeks. However, public data on the operational performance of budget revenues, which last year had been leaked on January 8, the Ministry has not yet been announced.

At the end of last year, experts predicted that in order to conceal non-general fund revenue budget Cabinet publishes data no earlier than mid-January - after the first round of presidential elections.

“Annual Report will be available until April 9, and in early May, we will be ready to submit these data to the Verkhovna Rada. Operational data still believe,” - said the spokesperson of the State Treasury Lubomir Stadnik. But yesterday, the secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the budget received preliminary information on the implementation of the budget. “It has already received head of the Committee Mykola Derkach, and after a few days she will be given the MPs”, - explained the source of the committee. Press Service of the Ministry of Finance has ignored the request.

General Fund budget for income is not made in 2009 to 12.4 billion UAH, told the President”s Secretariat (SP). Takes account of IMF money received in November. Without them, the gap would be 31 billion UAH “, - said the source. Given the funds to recapitalize banks and NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine “, as well as a planned deficit of $ 9.8 billion UAH budget” hole “was 81.5 billion UAH, calculated in the joint venture. In the State Tax Administration and the State customs unofficially confirmed to Kommersant the failure of plans: tax gleaning 6% of the budget assignment, and customs officials refused to give the percentage of arrears. “Do not complied with - and all, let us at this point,” - said State Customs officer. As a result, the balance of the Government on a single treasury account at 1 January amounted to only 1.1 billion UAH.
 

experts are confident that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko unfavorable report about the failure of implementation of the budget prior to the second round of presidential elections - a low comparative base in 2009 will force any government to revise the indicators incorporated in the draft budget for 2010 last September. Senior Economist Center “CASE-Ukraine” Vladimir Dubrovsky not expect drastic correction, as well as reduce costs is almost impossible.

“Most of the costs - social benefits, so to save their budget could be reduced, as was done in Latvia. But for us it is unpopular, and therefore can not be excluded delaying payments&dbcamp;quot; - he said. President Viktor Yushchenko accused the government on January 15 in disrupting the schedule of pension payments. According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, in the evening on January 20 pensions paid to 84,4%, or 12.37 billion UAH.
 

Economist Bureau of Economic and Social Research Vladislav Komarov implies that the IMF could force Ukraine to receive credit tranches revise or freeze improvement sotsstandartov at 2009. “This last year we could fund and promise not to comply, and this year, Ukraine had no money, only to Naftohaz month to $ 500 million to pay for gas,” - he points out.

Natalia Nepryakhin

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