The Ministry of Finance started preparing the state budget for 2018, First Deputy Minister of Finance Oksana Markarova wrote in Facebook, EP reports.
“The Ministry of Finance completed preparatory works, and the day before yesterday, all the controllers obtained the marginal data and instructions for drawing up the draft budget for the next year”, she wrote.
According to her, the active phase of internal budget process – budget requests and meetings with controllers – is scheduled for the next month.
“The countdown to 15 September 2017 was started”, Markarova summarized.
According to the budgetary legislation, the Cabinet of Ministers should introduce into the Verkhovna Rada the draft state budget for the next year until 15 September 2017.
