What income does the government count on?
Recently, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the bill on the state budget for the next year. The government sent the document to the Verkhovna Rada. In particular, officials believe that in 2022, income and fees on personal income will increase by UAH 23.2 billion — up to UAH 160.8 billion, and corporate income taxes will bring UAH 25.5 billion more than in 2021. m (UAH 137.3 billion), reports with reference to.
Economic expert Aleksey Doroshenko is convinced that the first increase in tax revenues to the treasury will be due to an increase in the average salary and activation of the labor market: the number of employees will increase. Unless, of course, a new quarantine collapse occurs in Ukraine.
“As for the profit tax, I do not share the optimism of the Cabinet of Ministers. Probably, officials are counting on the public sector, since the private sector will not “pull out” such figures and will not show significant growth. There is a prospect for the growth of state-owned enterprises «
, — the expert considers.
Recall that in the draft state budget approved by the government, which has already been registered in parliament under No. 6000, revenues are provided at the level of UAH 1.278 trillion, which is UAH 161.7 billion more than in the current year. In particular, most of the funds are expected from the payment of VAT.
At the same time, expenses were set at UAH 1.466 trillion, or 103.1 billion more than in 2021.