The most corrupt bodies in Ukraine were courts (74% of respondents), as well as tax and customs agencies (54%).
Ukraine's State Fiscal Service (SFS) says it has scheduled tax inspections in 2018 at 5,500 legal entities with declared assets exceeding UAH 1.2 billion (US$42 million), according to the SFS website.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman is convinced that Ukraine may achieve economic growth at 5-7% in 2018 while the draft national budget for next year projects 3%.
Ukraine's state institutions have planned 27,169 inspections of businesses next year, according to the OpenDataBot, a business data registration monitoring service.
The Office of the National Investment Council under the President of Ukraine reports that about 94% of state-owned assets belong to only 46 state-run companies, while in total there are 3,500 state-owned enterprises in the country.
In the course of the working visit to the United States, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has met with representatives of leading American businesses, noting U.S. companies are reliable partners of Ukrainian businesses overseas and welcome in Ukraine as potential investors, the presidential press service reports.
Ukraine's law No. 1982-VIII on amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine on the use of seals by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs entered into force on July 19, according to the Verkhovna Rada's website.
Ukrainian businesses forecast consumer prices will grow by 15.6% in the next 12 months, which is lower than expectations of 16.2% inflation in the previous quarter (Q4 2016), according to the Business Outlook Survey conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine in Q1 2017.