PM Groysman expects Parliament to pass state budget in a week

The state budget of Ukraine for 2018 may be approved by the Verkhovna Rada on December 7.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said this at the meeting "Dialogue of power and business", an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"We agreed yesterday, finalized the last parameters of the state budget for 2018. We will speak at the Ukrainian parliament on December 7," Groysman said.

He stressed that the planned work would allow the business to start the new year without any surprises.

As reported, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the state budget for 2018 in the first reading on November 14.

It is assumed that the general fund revenues of the consolidated budget will for the first time exceed 1 trillion hryvnias and reach 1 trillion 30 billion hryvnias with the GDP growth at 3% and inflation rate at 7%.

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