Arseniy Yatsenyuk: The State Fiscal Service should be a part of the Ministry of Finance

posted 15 May 2015 14:12

The Government has given the State Fiscal Service three months to restore order in the tax system, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Friday, May 15, during An Hour of Questions to the Government at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

The Head of Government recalled that the new leadership of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine had been appointed, and the State Fiscal Service was given “three months to restore order in the tax system”: “first of all - to stop an abusive tax shelter. The second is to restore order in the custom system. And thirdly is to solve the problem of tax police.”

The Government, he said, proposes to eliminate the tax police and transfer it to the civil investigation of tax crimes: "I insist once again that this reform should be carried out".

Arseniy Yatsenyuk also stressed that the role and place of the State Fiscal Service provided by the program of reforming of the tax service in general: "I believe that the State Fiscal Service should be a part of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine".

The Prime Minister noted that this issue is being discussed in the framework of the elaboration of the final version of the reform of the Tax Service.