Partnership with AUC
15 March 2013
Meeting of Ukraine’s Municipal Finance Officers
The MFSI-II Project took part in a meeting of Ukraine’s municipal finance officers, which was held in Dnipropetrovsk on 14 and 15 March 2013. The event was organized by the Association of Ukrainian Cities as part of the USAID Development Initiative for Advocating Local Governance in Ukraine (DIALOG) Project.
The meeting was held to identify the ways of strengthening the financial basis of local government and to review legislative drafts to amend budgetary and tax laws.
The meeting was held to identify the ways of strengthening the financial basis of local government and to review legislative drafts to amend budgetary and tax laws.
The Project took part in discussing the following draft laws:
- On amending the Budget Code of Ukraine and several other State-level legislative acts regarding the normalization of the list of revenues and expenditures of local budgets;
- On amending the Budget Code of Ukraine to improve the mechanism of planning by the Ministry of Finance of local budget revenues that are taken into account when determining the amount of intergovernmental transfers;
- On amending the Budget Code of Ukraine to improve the Treasury servicing of local budgets;
- On amending the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding the collection of payments for land;
- On amending the Tax Code of Ukraine and the Commercial Code of Ukraine regarding the normalization of personal income tax payments by separated divisions of legal entities.
As a result of the meeting, proposals will be compiled with regard to amending the legislation as well as the proposals for adjusting the indicators of the Law of Ukraine “On the State Budget of Ukraine for the Year 2013” with regard to local budgets and interbudgetary relations.
Glyanec