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The Verkhovna Rada voted on the draft state budget for the 2017 year in the first reading
Parliament adopted in the first reading the draft state budget for the 2017 year with amendments from the relevant committee. The corresponding decision was supported by 230 members of parliament.
This was reported by UNIAN. As the news agency notes, on 21 September the Verkhovna Rada accepted for consideration the draft state budget for the 2017 year prepared by the government, with a deficit of 3% of GDP, revenues of 706,269 billion UAH, and expenditures of 775,265 billion UAH.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft state budget on 15 September at an extraordinary session. During its presentation, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman stated that the prepared budget is a budget of economic development.
Earlier, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said that during the discussion of the draft state budget for the 2017 year MPs proposed to submit 1165 amendments to the document, but most of the amendments were rejected due to an imbalance of expenditures and revenues.
It was also previously reported that the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Budget Issues recommended that parliament take into account a number of amendments when considering the draft state budget for the 2017 year developed by the Cabinet of Ministers.
"The Committee on Budget Issues made a decision to recommend that the Verkhovna Rada adopt on the basis and in full the draft resolution prepared by the committee 5000-P regarding conclusions and proposals to the bill," said committee representative, People's Deputy Oleksandr Horbunov.
In June of this year, the Cabinet approved the budget resolution, which foresees GDP growth in the 2017 year of 3–4%, inflation at 8,1%, an unemployment rate of 8,6%, a projected public debt level of 66,8% of GDP, and an exchange rate of the hryvnia at 27,2 UAH per 1 dollar.
According to State Statistics Service data, the goods trade deficit in Ukraine in January–August 2016 year amounted to 1,465 billion USD compared with a 548,5 million USD surplus for the same period last year. Exports of goods from Ukraine in January–August 2016 year compared to January–August 2015 year fell by 9% — to 22,719 billion USD, imports fell by 0,9% to 24,184 billion USD.
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