Revenues to the general fund of the state budget from taxes administered by the State Tax Service have exceeded the plan for the first 6 months of this year by 3.1% or by 10.4 billion UAH.
This was reported by Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy of the Verkhovna Rada, in an interview with Telegraf.
In addition, according to him, the State Customs Service has exceeded the budget fill plan for the half-year by 0.9% or 1.6 billion UAH, including 2 billion UAH in June.
"This overfulfillment is extremely important to us, since it is actually a consolidation of efforts of businesses and the state for the sake of ensuring the army," Hetmantsev noted. He added that 10.4 billion UAH would help to provide armaments and equipment for 3 brigades.
"Let me remind you that we finance all military expenditures exclusively from our own income," the MP pointed out.
Background. Earlier, Mind reported that more than 60% of state budget expenditures in Q1 2023 had been directed towards defence.