Groysman: Local budgets to grow by 36% in 2018

The incomes of local budgets can grow by 36% in the next year.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said this while presenting the draft state budget for 2018 during the meeting of the government, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"Local incomes [local budgets] will be increased by 36%," he said.

At the same time, the head of the government noted that the consolidated resource of the local budgets in 2018 is planned at the level of UAH 521 billion, which is almost half of the country's state budget.

At the same time, Groysman stresses that next year, the government plans to allocate for the regional development from the state budget as much money as this year – UAH 10 billion.

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