Archive for May 2015

Means of macro-financial assistance package of 1.8 billion euros according to the memorandum will come in three tranches of 600 million euros – two tranches in 2015 and one in 2016. Ukraine received the first tranche of macro-financial assistance of 600 million euros in the framework of the memorandum signed…

The relevant date is provided in the final statement of the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The action of a free trade zone between Ukraine and the European Union will start on 1 January 2016, noted in a joint final statement of the summit of the Eastern Partnership. “The summit…

The National Council on the reform on 15 May approved a comprehensive program of financial sector development for the period up to 2020. The program provides for the reform of all segments of the financial market – the banking sector, the sector of non-bank financial institutions, the stock market, the…

The meeting of the Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the first revision of the program extended EFF funding is expected in June, said spokesman of the IMF Jerry Rice. The mission of the Foundation for the revision of the program is considered completed after the…

France is ready to take an active part in the privatization of Ukrainian state property. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk after meeting with French Prime Minister Manuel Waltz in Paris. The Prime Minister added that the French side will send experts to the State Property…

In Ukraine issued the law number 344-VIII “On Amendments to Article 69 of the Tax Code of Ukraine on simplification of business conditions”. This document was developed in order to reduce the number of procedures and time of registration of business entities in the fiscal sphere and improve Ukraine’s position…

The surplus of the trade balance of Ukraine in the first quarter of 2015 amounted to 1.193 billion dollars which is 11.9% more than the surplus in the same period last year, according to the website of the State Statistics Service. Earlier it was reported that the deficit of Ukraine’s…

The Parliament adopted in the first reading a bill №2004  The Verkhovna Rada intends to prohibit the tax authorities to use an inspection report as a basis for drawing conclusions about the relationship between the taxpayer and the supervisory authority without issuing tax notification solutions. For the adoption of the…

The mission of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday began its work in Ukraine. “The mission is in the first revision of the program in Ukraine EFF started on May 12,” – said in a Government. As previously reported with reference to the IMF spokesman Gerry Rice the work of…

Energy ministers of the leading industrialized countries (G7) expressed the need to help Ukraine and other European countries to reduce dependence on Russian gas. The decision adopted on Tuesday, May 12 the joint communique published on the website of the Ministry of Economy and Energy of Germany following a meeting…