Arsenii Yatseniuk suggests EBA to submit to the Government candidates to chair State Tax Administration and Customs Service

posted 03 March 2014 15:30

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk has suggested representatives of the European Business Association to submit candidates to chair the State Tax Administration and the State Customs Service. He announced during a meeting with the Ukrainian business community on March 3. 

The new Government has liquidated the Ministry of Incomes and Fees and returned the State Tax Administration and the State Customs Service, Arsenii Yatseniuk reminded.

“The matter is not only in returning the structures but in how the mentioned structures will be functioning,” the Prime Minister stressed and recalled while getting the Parliament familiarized with the Program of the Government he had informed that the Tax Administration and the Customs Service would be chaired by people “not from the regime”.

According to Arsenii Yatseniuk, he has had several meetings with members of the largest audit companies. 

He appealed to the business community representatives with the proposition to submit to the Government several candidates in the framework of the European Business Association to enable the Cabinet of Ministers to appoint “new incorruptible specialists” to the State Tax Administration and the State Customs Service.

Arsenii Yatseniuk added they must be “people with western education and knowledge in tax and customs schemes”.

“I am asking to do that tomorrow targeting to enable the Government to appoint them on Wednesday morning, as we are in the extremely difficult situation,” Arsenii Yatseniuk added.