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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in Ukraine, Gavin Gray, supported the Ukrainian government's plans to raise taxes, Ukrainian media reported on Tuesday.
On July 18, Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said that the Ukrainian government had prepared a bill on raising taxes, which, in particular, proposed raising the military tax rate. On the same day, Taras Melnychuk, the Ukrainian government's representative to the parliament, said that the government had approved a bill providing for an increase in defense spending by 495.3 billion hryvnia ($12 billion).
On August 1, Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko said that the sources for increasing funding for the country’s armed forces had been exhausted and that raising taxes for the population was necessary.
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