The draft law on the state budget for 2025 will increase the salaries of a number of authorities. This was reported by Nina Yuzhanina, a member of the European Solidarity MP, Komersant ukrainskyi
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The MP has published a detailed list of government agencies and the percentage of their payroll increase:
- Verkhovna Rada (apparatus) – by 26.2%;
- The Office of the President – by 11.2%;
- The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine – by 19.7%;
- NABU – by 28.2%;
- Prosecutor’s Office – by 25.8%;
- Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office – by 71.2%;
- BES – by 75%;
- National Securities and Stock Market Commission – by 49.6%;
- Accounting Chamber – by 38.2%;
- NAPC – by 7.4%;
- Courts – by 9.3%;
- Tax Service – by 39.3%;
- Customs Service – by 15.4%;
- The State Financial Monitoring Service – by 7.7%;
- The National Security and Defence Council – by 6.3%;
- The Ministry of Finance – by 4.3%.
“I am sure that they will not feel the increase in the military tax from 1.5% to 5%,” said Yuzhanina.
At the same time, there is no increase in the payroll fund in the educational, scientific and medical sectors.
Key indicators
The economic indicators mentioned in the article about the draft State Budget of Ukraine for 2025:
- General fund revenues (without official transfers and grants): uAH 2007.4 billion.
- General fund expenditures: uAH 3643.6 billion.
- Financial resources for the security and defence sector: uAH 2223 billion (26.3% of GDP).
- Support for socially vulnerable citizens: uAH 419.2 billion (Pension Fund: uAH 237.9 billion, Assistance to low-income families and people in difficult life circumstances: uAH 127.9 billion. Payment of benefits and subsidies: uAH 42.3 billion).
- Healthcare: uAH 210.7 billion.
- Education: UAH 169.3 billion.
- Culture and information space: uAH 9.6 billion.
- Digital transformation: 4.0 billion UAH.
- Scientific research: uAH 14.0 billion.
- Entrepreneurship Development Fund: uAH 18 billion (soft loans under the 5-7-9% programme).
- Grants for business: uAH 1.4 billion.
- Support for regions: uAH 12.2 billion (subvention to compensate for the difference in tariffs).
- Provision of housing for citizens: uAH 9.4 billion.
- Humanitarian land demining: uAH 1 billion.
- State Fund for Decarbonisation and Energy Efficiency Transformation: uAH 1.75 billion.
- Subsidies to local budgets: uAH 51.2 billion.
- Reserve fund: uAH 43.9 billion.
- External borrowings: uAH 1658.4 billion.
- Domestic borrowings: uAH 579.2 billion.
- State budget deficit: 19.4% of GDP.
The forecast for the financing of the State Budget for 2025 envisages a reduction of the state budget deficit to 19.4% of GDP (20.6% in the current law on the State Budget for 2024), which is in line with the targets agreed with international partners.
Public borrowings from the general fund are planned to amount to UAH 2237.6 billion, including UAH 579.2 billion of domestic borrowings and UAH 1658.4 billion of external borrowings.