Will the budgets of Chernihiv fill the tax reform?

On December 5, 2011, at 2:00 pm, a press conference “Involve the community to monitor the impact of tax reform on local budgets” was held at the Clean Policy Expert Club. The event was dedicated to the implementation of a new project of the Polissya Fund of International and Regional Research “Local Taxes: Public Monitoring of the Impact of Tax Reform on Financial Independence of Local Budgets”.

The Polissya Fund of International and Regional Studies organized the press conference. The event was due to the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.

Representatives of the Polissya Fund of International and Regional Research Posted the main measures that are planned to be implemented within the framework of the project to achieve its main goal – to evaluate the impact of tax reform in Ukraine on the role of local taxes and fees in the formation Chernihiv.

During the event, the President of the Polissya Fund Gennady Maxak emphasized the importance of implementing the project for a thorough analysis of the effectiveness of tax reform at the regional district and city levels. Project manager Maxim Koryavets reported the main design measures. Project expert Maxim Zabashtansky reported the content of the analytical part of the project.

The project will provide three main stages: collecting information; analytical stage; Advocacy. The implementation of the first two stages involves: -conducting an analysis of changes in the tax legislation at the national level regarding the possibilities of its impact on the formation of local budget revenues;

-analysis of local normative-legal and organizing and administrative decisions concerning the budget process at the level of Ernihiv region, Chernihiv district, the city of Chernihiv and their influence on the implementation of local tax policy;

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-analysis of the change in the role of local taxes and fees in the formation of budget revenues of Chernihiv region, Chernihiv district and the city of Chernihiv on the basis of analysis of absolute and relative and indicators of growth of the volume of tax revenues;

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-identification of deficiencies in the proceedings of local tax policy by the authorities and self -government of Chernihiv region, Chernihiv district and the city of Chernihiv;

-Development of recommendations and proposals for the development and/or improvement of the legal framework for the introduction of local taxes and fees.

Head
The project noted that the importance of the advocacy stage of the project lies in the lobbying of amendments to the budgetary legal framework, on the basis of recommendations and proposals made by experts, which will be sent to the authorities and self-government of Chernihiv region, Chernihiv district and the city of Chernihiv, as well as. This is planned through personal meetings with the project stakeholders, sending requests for
taking into account recommendations and proposals, public events and information campaign.

Purpose
project “Local Taxes: Public Monitoring of the Impact of Tax Reform on Financial Independence of Local Budgets”, carried out by the Polissya Fund of International and Regional Studies with the support of the program of strengthening the impact of the Civil Society of the International Renaissance Foundation, is an assessment of the impact of tax reform in Ukraine on the role of local taxes.