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Also, the Cabinet plans to reduce the budget deficit from 2.4% to 2.2% of GDP.
In the Draft State Budget of Ukraine for 2019, the government laid the inflation rate at 7.4%, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman told a Kyiv forum titled "Full mobilization: General Action Plan" on Tuesday.
"It is very important for us to keep inflation below a two-digit figure, that is, below 10%," Groysman said.
"In principle, what we plan for the next year in the state budget is 7.4%, and also a reduction in the budget deficit ceiling from 2.4 to 2.2% [of the gross domestic product]. This is the frame that we must maintain," Groysman said.
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As UNIAN reported, the state budget of Ukraine in January-August 2018 received UAH 607.470 billion of revenues, which is UAH 18.984 billion, or 3% lower than the target for the said period.
UNIAN memo. The state budget of Ukraine for 2018 provides revenues in the amount of UAH 917.9 billion and expenditures – at UAH 991.7 billion, with the deficit ceiling set at UAH 80.6 billion, or 2.4% of GDP.