Budget 2025 was passed by the committee before the final vote: what new awaits Ukrainians

The Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada approved the draft of the State Budget for 2025 for the second reading with important changes, in particular proposing to retain 64% of personal income tax for communities, the head of the committee, People’s Deputy Roksolana Pidlas, announced on Facebook on Monday, writes UNN.

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“The Budget Committee approved the draft of the State Budget-2025 for the second reading and made final amendments to the text of the draft. Then there will be a vote in the hall in the second reading and in general for the entire draft law,” Pidlasa wrote.

According to her, the committee proposed to change:

1. 2 billion dollars (90 billion UAH) of loan funds will go to the state budget from Great Britain purely to cover military expenses, namely the purchase of weapons. They are reflected in the special fund of external borrowings and expenditures of the Ministry of Defense,

2. We left 4% of personal income tax (except for the military) in communities (i.e., in general, it will be 64% for communities) for calculations for communal services and energy carriers, accordingly, we cancel the subvention to regional budgets to cover the difference in tariffs for UAH 12.2 billion,

3. Front-line communities were allowed NOT to transfer the reverse to the state budget (a total of UAH 593 million),

4. +128 million Ukrzaliznytsia for the co-financing of the European project for the development of railway infrastructure (in fact, the railway track). Co-financing is a mandatory condition for providing European funds,

5. + UAH 277.1 million of the National Academy of Sciences, in particular for research in the military sphere,

6. The possibility for political parties to buy military OVDP bonds was excluded (Article 49 of the budget),

7. Obligations for hospitals to keep money in accounts in the treasury were excluded (Clause 28 of the final provisions).

“The rest is as submitted by the government,” Pidlasa noted.

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