Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at an Aug. 6 Cabinet of Ministers meeting presented the government’s vision for simplifying the nation’s complicated tax system. It calls for cutting the number of taxes from 22 to 9, creating a single financial crimes agency, decentralization, and the introduction of a progressive income tax.
The Kyiv Post published a discussion of the proposals and the Ukrainian-language version of the document on Aug. 6. Today, we publish the English-language translation of the Concept of reformation of the Ukrainian tax system.
