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Ukraine Faces Massive Budget Gap
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Taxes are weapons. Before the war, half the economy was in the shadows,” Danylo Hetmanstev, head of the Verkhovna Rada’s tax committee,
told Financial Times. Tax evasion has been one of many issues facing Ukraine since it first declared independence. Tax revenues have risen since the war began and Increased taxes on windfall profits have helped to offset some $3 bn of the $41 bn gap between domestic revenues and its $87 bn budget. Military spending accounts for nearly half of the budget.
Proposed solutions range from spending cuts to printing money, But short of full funding by its partners, any solution is likely to be “
unpleasant,” according to Roksolana Pidlasa, chair of the Verkhovna Rada’s budget committee. Domestic revenues are only 46 bn. With only half of the $37 bn gap in funding being committed by the US, EU, and IMF, there are serious concerns about Ukraine’s future even off of the battlefield. Little chance remains that the deadlock in the US House of Representative will be broken. And next year's budget is even more unlikely to see funding since budget talks are set to take place in October, ahead of US presidential elections.
Ukraine’s government has proven either unwilling or unable to transition to a sustainable wartime economy. Pidlasa says that over half of Ukraine’s economy is in the service sector and that such a transition would only cripple their economy. “If we drafted everyone to work on military production, who’s going to pay for ordering the shells and hardware? Somebody has to pay taxes,” she said.
Ukraine’s dream of mobilization of 500,000 recruits would “
cost [an additional] $8.6 bn in salaries, basic equipment, food and training.” Such an achievement is unlikely given a
report last week in the Washington Post that there is currently no "
clear mobilization strategy — or even agreement on how many more troops Ukraine needs."
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