taxes at this price, you understand, well, something needs to be done, at least taxes. i don't know about montenegro in spain and in hungary, there is a lower excise tax. yes, there really is 1.3 1.5 such a price. well, you know what. well , first of all, there were attacks on e-e projects on fuel bases and on all objects located at our kremenchug e-e plant, wherever they were produced , so of course there is no, in fact, we know that this fuel is gasoline and diesel, it was purchased, but it is not enough of these resources of these gasoline trucks in order to bring it to the country as soon as possible. that is well, there are no such capacities in europe, we understand that this is not an excuse, but we need to understand why, what, what, what, this is an objective situation, in fact, there is a problem, and this is fuel. consumer to ukrainians well, you have more

contact there well, then let them tell people the truth well , 10 days ago it was said that in 10 days the issue will be resolved it has become even worse well, the level of trust well, how can people after that believe other promises made by government representatives well it's you you know here well, in fact, there is definitely a question for the government and for the deputies, but look , there was a question, you see, you know that there is regulation for some. my colleagues raised the question that we should remove state regulation, prices could soar without state regulation regulation because some businesses, after all, you know that they don’t care and who has a war, who needs to make money, and this situation exists, that’s why such a decision was made that regulation remains, and there were these deliveries of promised fuel, but this was purchased from the logistics

there are indeed problems, including objective ones, due to the fact that the russian federation, the aggressor , carries out missile strikes specifically on bases, specifically on communications, on deliveries and where this fuel is stored, where it is produced, because it is actually, well, because of the sea, there is no way through the pipelines, also from russia and belarus, there is no way. therefore, everything is actually only delivered by rail or road transport from europe, and unfortunately there are these problems. we also hope that these issues will be resolved in the near future. that if they are not resolved, it will be necessary to ask questions about responsibility because well, the sowing is still about to continue and people really have the opportunity to refuel, even if it will be more expensive, but there must definitely be fuel at gas stations well, for now, the question you didn't see this agenda for the next meeting.

unfortunately, here. unfortunately, by law, we are here. i already said that we have reduced taxation to almost zero, that is, here the maximum assistance is provided by the law. here, we cannot provide the report by law. fuel well, i don't know. we have such a regime. it will be decided by the agreed council whether we will have such a function now, in fact, in the beginning , we have never had martial law. it is a question of the hour of questions to the government. will there be this week i i don’t know, this question is more for the leadership of the verkhovna rada and where the conciliation council is, so definitely this function remains, and i will also say the question about the factions. they remain with the government officials. it’s wonderful. and please tell me, are there hetmantsev’s initiatives regarding the customs clearance of cars? that he said that it seems that they will be presented. have you seen the agenda? well, so far there are no such questions regarding the cancellation of these benefits, although you

know that due to the queues of many deputies, there are questions about whether or not it should be left as such benefit because, taking into account the possibilities of the budget , taking into account the need to pay social benefits to doctors, military teachers, and questions about this remain. for three years, for example, or to import and allow those people who have lost a car and there is a corresponding act of culling to import without customs, that is, that the loss of the car, the loss of the car, this is a very hot issue, and among the deputies it is also, uh, heated discussions are still going on, but this week, eh there is no such

bill on the agenda at the moment . not everyone has had time to start it, mr. pavly, but here is your vision of how to fill the budget at such a critical time . of business. and how do you see how it is necessary to fill the budget now to find ways to fill the budget so as not to crush business and not to add? well, you know, we already introduced simply unprecedented benefits. that is, we actually allowed business to pay or not pay taxes and provide tax reporting only if there is such an opportunity. at the last plenary meeting, we adjusted it because you know there are different types of business. there is a business that gives the last and imports. it spends its own working capital to support the army on the purchase of machines

for the purchase of various thermal imagers and so on. they don't pay even though they have the opportunity to be objective and this is obvious because it can be compared to competitors to representatives of that hall. and there is a business that gives the last to that . it's a question whether there are really objective reasons for not paying taxes during martial law, it will be checked on the spot directly, whether there are such reasons, that is, if there really are real reasons for not paying taxes, then this business

will not pay tax, but you you know that for medium and small businesses and even there for large businesses, we introduced only a 2% turnover tax. that is, almost taxation was completely abolished, but despite the fact that we ensured the necessary social payments, which are very large now it is in connection with the war. therefore, this question unfortunately does not have a simple answer to this question. if it is to continue, then the question is how to cover social payments. the question will arise in the future . and it is possible that the minister of finance is talking about this without details, he says that he has considered the issue of raising taxes and even nationalization, what is provided for by the law on martial law, so far without details, without details, but the minister of finance is talking about this and we understand that we cannot

refuse social security payments to our doctors and our teachers, so the issue will be resolved in the future by you, people's deputy of ukraine. well, it's a difficult issue, let's try to figure it out by involving economists in this topic. come on, i wanted to talk about gasoline. i think that even ordinary viewers are interested in this question even more than the question of filling the budget, or the budget is something abstract, but gasoline is concrete and that the number of gas trucks transporting fuel to ukraine has increased by a third compared to the beginning of may, against the background of its shortage at gas stations, the press service of the government reports everything based on the results of an online meeting with representatives of the fuel business on providing the domestic market with fuel . that the european union has already introduced for ukraine the so-called corridors of solidarity, that is, a platform

for establishing alternative logistics routes by all possible modes of transport, similar the expert noted that shmagal worked during the pandemic in europe, when vaccines and medicines were delivered. the government is doing and is ready to do everything necessary - he said it is making noise to give business the opportunity to import fuel into the country, please mr. serhiy and mr. hleby, why in the last 10 days has the government promised there or a week or 10 days , the situation, on the contrary, has worsened, well, at least what i see at the gas stations. i have not used the car personally for a week now, because i do not have time to just waste my time standing for hours in queues at refueling, i am asking for a series, the first situation or not , it is really difficult to judge. and this is how the situation was drawn up, not much has changed since the last type - it is such a situation that it is difficult to change, given the circumstances, again, you and i have already talked about it, there are objective factors, russian missiles that fly,

oil refineries the measures and demand from the armed forces and the population in relation to individuals is an objective factor that has been added - this is state regulation, and this all together caused this crisis, and while may continues, as long as the sowing continues, there will be no relief soon you should not expect quick relief. look well, i already mentioned the price of 95th gasoline in montenegro , it costs 55 euros at the moment, it is less than 50 uah, well, plus or minus 50 uah, why do we not have 95th gasoline for 50 uah? and why you you compare with montenegro, let's compare with poland with other countries of montenegro, there may be some special situation due to many, many other factors , now in europe if we see the price there is 2 € + we understood that what if you push away from montenegro there and that it is still needed by what spend it will be determined by montenegro, this is also the cost, that's why. actually, the average salary is €700. well, it is

somewhere plus or minus compared to ukraine. what is the average salary for? and gasoline prices, gasoline that is born, no, no, no, no, the average salary is born from taxes, taxes are paid there. all excise taxes at the price of euro-55 in our country excise is not paid at all vat 7%. and the price is higher than in montenegro, that's why i ask them again, the price, er, does not in any way depend on what taxes ukrainians pay with their salary, the cost of er, gasoline in it is important for europe to transfer gasoline here. everything else is unimportant. yes, there are indeed a lot of logistical problems and so on, and because of the state regional prices, there has been a further shortage and turnovers. and actually because of his equipment, there is a shortage. of course, they will take more money from us, because you you get a unique product, if there was enough

gasoline on the market, you could say oh, let’s go exactly to the market price, but the state regulation of the goals made this product scarce, and then shadow markets are already operating, the situation is hopeless, i see, i don’t see any prospect of solving this issue so that gasoline appears at gas stations at any price, because what difference does it make at what price it was not packaged to buy if it is not there, your prediction please well, actually, i do not agree with you either we are arguing with you about something sergey inclusion because, in fact, at some equal price, demand and supply will balance out. that is, you have not driven a car for the last week because you do not want to waste time standing in queues, but if the price of gasoline is conditionally uah 60, you may not drive because you will not want to refuel at uah 60, and accordingly , then the deficit will disappear, but the

price will simply increase significantly and, in my opinion, this would still be a better option. thank you. in your opinion, the government is doing enough now, are there any ways to correct this the situation is faster well, simply time is passing, the situation seems to me to be getting worse. please. as for the actual provision of supplies in ukraine, i think the government is doing enough . what needs to be done and still hold on to price regulation, which, i will remind you, was introduced even before the war in the summer of 2021, simply because the government decided that it was necessary to regulate fuel prices when they began to rise as the world economy came out of covid, this is another issue. i think that this regulation should be abandoned. i would like to return to taxes after all. we spoke with pavel frolov, he is a deputy from the pro-government party. so i asked him, we overheard a little of

our conversation, how are we going to fill the budget because hetmantsev there is a renewal of inspections and possible higher taxes in principle, frolov confirmed that it is possible that we will increase taxes do they really have nothing to pay, or can they really evade and even shake them there serhii fursa by the ear with a girlfriend and so on , in fact, in our country, at the beginning of martial law, the government actually abolished taxes and it was clear that it cannot be kept like this for a long time, the state simply cannot exist without taxation. therefore, now the return of certain e-e payments is already a completely natural history. the state cannot live like this for a long time, but one way or another, it will be the main compensator for the budget deficit, which will be 4.5 billion in the coming months. dollars should become western aid and

western financing 4-5 billion dollars a month budget deficit so we need to be poured into us just someone gave it as a loan should be poured in do we have to give it to us is it necessary or how just non-refundable aid, now there is a conversation about non- refundable aid because it is clear to everyone and the western and eastern countries understand that such a level of debt for ukraine is burdensome and impossible, therefore, most of this money, most of it, not all, but most of it will be grant funds well then, yes, mr. sergey, mr. mushrooms comment i yesterday i read our finance minister and somehow the hair on my head stood on end. his name is serhiy marchenko . if anyone doesn't know, he gave an interview to a british publication where he is an economist and he said that if for almost quote, the war will continue for more than 3-4 more months, then ukraine will have to take painful steps, in particular , a sharp increase in taxes and a reduction in expenses

, the minister said in a publication to the icon of the city, mr. griba , and maybe well, first of all, ukraine should talk about writing off the debts of the stoppage and billions of september in the next six months we have to pay a billion and here i also have the option of dollars, we can be ready to give it, it doesn't work like that again, you can't just take it and write it off, you country will go into default and then you won't receive in general, we can exit exit the offer postpone the interest such an offer immediately means default, that's enough , so if you want, want to get a default rating in a country that should be reset with money , then please, but for the sake of a billion dollars, when we

have to receive by the end of the year 30, defaulting is a very idea zone of mr. marchenko's comment, mr. marchenko's idea is that he was just giving a comment not on ukrainian television, but rather an economist, and his message is that the west should speed up financial assistance to ukraine, because otherwise we will have to take these steps and it will be very bad for the economy therefore his addressee is not ukrainian business in which he can predict some problems his addressee is western partners who need to speed up bureaucratic procedures and give those funds that we keep hearing about but unfortunately in full they simply do not come in volume. the world bank predicts a 45% decrease in gdp, and the minister of economy proposes a radical increase in taxes. well, in principle, this is a good position and i think it is a correct policy. he does not propose. he says that the country will have to if not there will be money message like this please hurry because

we will be bad we really need money this is another message thank you members your assessment of such an interview or whether it should run thank you what does this time for comments mean and its up to the billion dollars that we need to pay again after all, we have to compare this with the budget deficit, which we actually had four billion dollars in one month of april, respectively, 1 billion that we have left until the end of the year, this is absolutely not a matter of principle. indeed, on this scale, what as for taxes, then again well, everyone here has accepted that we need to raise taxes relative to the level we had on february 23, what i mean by the minister of finance is the actual increase in taxes from that er, in fact, the current state when er a large share of taxes is simply not paid by enterprises because

very quick and, unfortunately, ill-conceived decisions were made at the beginning of march of this year, because now, for example, i do not understand what the support for business and the ukrainian economy consists of ah, on february 23, if you imported an iphone to ukraine, you had to pay 20% vat on it, and accordingly, the ukrainian consumer had to pay this 20% vat on the iphone, now it is imported without vat and you just need to pay 2% of this from a single tax and the same applies to a-a ip- taxation of imports that is absent today in general, which very often competes with goods of domestic production, which actually affects domestic production and jobs in ukraine. what is the point of this tax incentive? i do not understand i think that the minister of finance is exactly what i mean. well, i think that very soon foreign goods will no longer compete with ukrainian ones, because the national bank

is considering the possibility of introducing a floating exchange rate for the ukrainian hryvnia, said kyrylo tymoshenko, head of the nbu, we are considering the possibility of easing some currency restrictions we we are also thinking about how to return to the floating exchange rate regime, such a step will bring greater stability to the foreign exchange market, but you are in the conditions of the realities of ukrainian floating exchange rates - this there is always a rapid devaluation of the national unit. well, i have lived here for 47 years. somehow, it just didn’t work out for us. maybe i’m wrong and your forecast or a similar statement will precede the devaluation of the hryvnia. in principle, the government is profitable. it now takes all donations and borrowings in europe and america in dollars. yes, he took 1 billion dollars for 33, that is 33 billion uah, and if there are 50, it will be 50 billion uah, significantly, the majority of the number of pensioners there or teachers can be served

with this money. uah strengthened so that the dollar was then worth 24, in my opinion , even 23 hryvnias for the dollar at some point and the government was actually worn down by the industrialists because they were dissatisfied with the hryvnia, which is too strong, they cannot compete with anyone on the domestic , foreign market, because of the situation there are different ones and now, actually, in the last week, the national bank spent only a little more than 300 million dollars to support the exchange rate, which in monthly conversion is about one and a half billion dollars per month, that is, in fact, we see that it is decreasing the need to maintain this fixed exchange rate, if we restore our own import taxes, this will significantly reduce the need for foreign currency, and i

think that, in general, we will actually be able to balance trade, and in fact, in this situation, we will not have a need for a serious devaluation of the hryvnia. that is, you think that the hryvnia will not depreciate in the near future, you can be calm 33 yes, the rate of 35 will remain yes, and i think so, i think that what we see now on the black cash market is the maximum to which it can act mr. mushrooms, today it is five years since the introduction of visa-free travel for ukraine. yes, it was also a political issue, we remember what it entailed. but we can already say what the economic effect of 5 years of visa-free travel is and what europe can do to help us now, and we saw that our exports to the european union have significantly increased over the years and the

possibility of establishing trade cooperation and sales on the market of the european union has become significantly easier after visa-free was introduced, it was much easier for ukrainian entrepreneurs to go and sell their goods and services to our largest neighboring and friendly market, respectively. it also reduced our dependence on the russian market. it was extremely useful for the ukrainian economy. the european union to support us financially. well, not just to pour money into the economy, but to help us. well, it is possible that our entrepreneurs will now be able to enter the european markets and have some opportunities . somehow they can support us not directly er now for a year the european union is introducing its own er exemption of ukrainian goods from er duties and from

duty-free quotas and in fact the next thing the european union should do is to make a decision on granting ukraine the status of a candidate for membership please go through this path with us as quickly as possible so that we become members of the european union, members of the common market of goods and services and, accordingly, make the most of this rich, large market to the west of the ukrainian border, i wanted to ask you about the material of britain, a water economist of a well-known economic publication, they analyzed the future surplus of russia's export of import operations against the background of sanctions introduced by the west, the british write that the import of western goods into russia has sharply decreased, while the export of energy carriers from russia there has actually not decreased, and thus at the end russia will have a surplus of foreign trade activities in 2018, predicts where the icons amount to 250 billion

dollars. how do you assess this figure? well, the icon of the city writes that even if the sanctions are introduced then by the end of the year this figure may decrease there by only 18%. well, this seems to be the forecast. have you read this material in an acquaintance with him, and are these expectations of british economists true? they say that it is necessary to deal with the sanctions very quickly and to strengthen them as soon as possible, but otherwise, in russia, they will not have the opportunity to drink something in the west, but they will have money like candy bars, please. well, actually, the trade surplus is not such a clear approximation to wealth, because, actually , why can this surplus in russia grow so much? because they actually, as you said, are limited in their ability to import and, accordingly, this has broken these supply chains that were important

for the russian economy to preserve jobs and to maintain the level of wages at russian enterprises. therefore, it still hits the the russian economy according to russian citizens, but on the other hand, it is absolutely necessary to beat as much as possible the sale of russian goods abroad, and this primarily concerns energy carriers and, accordingly, at the expense of these key articles to reduce the actual possibility of earning because this indicator of the trade surplus really shows that, as it turned out, in developed countries it was easier to give up the possibility of selling their products in russia than to stop buying russian energy carriers for themselves in order to ensure lower prices for their consumers. well i'm just commenting that in order to write something, tas very actively distributed it to all russian agencies, of course

, for russians. russian imports after russia's invasion of ukraine fell by 44%, while exports, on the contrary, increased by eight percent due to the shipment of energy carriers abroad, and at a higher price , russian exports are indicated in this article . good results, you understand. and this will continue, due to which russian exports are cut by 8%, and they exported quite a lot of gas, and in fact, waiting for the sanctions, consumers began to actively buy oil, anticipating that this this is the last opportunity to do it, and the prices have risen in parallel. because right here we are talking about the actual export, not in tons, we are talking about the export in

dollars, and accordingly, since there was an expectation that there would be sanctions, any such expectations mean an expectation of a decrease in the -e offers and, accordingly, the increase in prices, so until that time, in fact, we are now in the worst situation when, due to the expectation of sanctions, russia has the opportunity to sell at a higher price, but it still has the opportunity to sell, and here we convey hello to our neighbors, the hungarians, who were bought so well by our enemies from russia that they have been holding it for the second week and are not giving them the opportunity to introduce european sanctions . his name is capitalon economics liampich. in his opinion, if the european union even decides to ban the import of russian oil, the embargo will begin to operate very

slowly and the supply of hydrocarbons to the eu countries will decrease by only 19% in the current year, this is an objective indicator, an objective analysis, ah, i think it will depend, it will depend very much on the design of the sanctions, ah, let's see, it's in our interests to do it as soon as possible, but we see how complicated is this process? unfortunately , the finance ministers want to agree on this package at a meeting in bonn this week, european pravda reports, a high-ranking german government official said this, reuters comments, he wants because this money, all these packages, they will be something for us cost, that is, some obligations, maybe not a direct return, and how much, how much

will they be enough for us? well, actually, as far as i understand, a large share of grants is expected in this package, and so far, that is, it is all at the level of rumors, which is there there is a clear structure that is completely unclear, it is known that actually these eight and a half billion that the united states of america promised us will actually be a grant, not a loan, and we proceed from the fact that we really need now somewhere around 4 million dollars, that is, accordingly, that is, we we can calculate that this is money for 3-4 months of the war . thank you. gleb vyshlinskyi, head of the center for economic strategies, the four billion dollar budget deficit is already a hole in our e-e wallet, which needs to be covered with something. for now , our foreign partners are helping us, more news will be added and the koval market directly on the course of the news on express, and you have my word for it. literally in a moment, i will tell you about the evacuation