Kyiv cannot use the money it receives in taxes to pay wages to public sector employees because of the illogical organization of the financial flow management system, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
“It is an absurd situation when Kyivans’ money is sent to the State Treasury, and we cannot receive it to finance the city’s vital needs because it’s already been spent. We have about Hr 60 million not paid timely to Kyiv public sector employees. These are about 260,000 employees, who have not very high incomes and who have been left without wages. And we need to immediately pay this money today,” Klitschko said in an interview with Interfax on July 11.
“It turns out that we can’t use the money earned by the city to fund its first necessities. We understand that the economic situation in the country is difficult, but I’d like to stress once again that Kyiv is also in quite a difficult situation. The capital city is disastrously in need of money. Our budget is not even equal to zero but has large debts,” he said.
“I understand that the situation is absolutely critical in the entire country today, but we need to find the money so as not to have to stop the city economy, so that the city infrastructure should work, and so that the households should have electricity, gas, heating, and water. The problem is currently more than urgent,” he added.
