Revenues of Ukraine budget US$536 mln below target in H1 2018

At the same time, compared with the same period last year, budget revenues grew by 13.7%.

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The state budget of Ukraine in January-June 2018 received UAH 449.056 billion ($17.07 billion) in revenue, which is UAH 14.128 billion ($536 million), or 3.1%, below the target for the said period.

Compared with the same period in 2017, the state budget revenues in the first half of 2018 increased by UAH 54.150 billion ($2.06 billion), or by 13.7%, reads the report by Ukraine's State Treasury.

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UNIAN memo. The state budget of Ukraine for 2018 set a revenue target at UAH 917.9 billion ($34.9 billion) and expenditures – at UAH 991.7 billion ($37.7 billion), with the deficit ceiling set at UAH 80.6 billion ($3.07 billion), or 2.4% of GDP.

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